Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert S. Pilley

died April 19, 1946 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Robert S. Pilley died at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 19, 1946, when the State of Alabama executed him in the electric chair. He was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections at the time. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the death as an execution.

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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