Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Dudley

died March 20, 1936 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Robert Dudley, a Black man, was put to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 20, 1936. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution carried out by the State of Alabama. The department classifies it as a homicide.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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