Executed
Robert Sanders
Robert Sanders, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 7, 1939. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists the death as a judicial execution carried out by the state while he was in its custody. The record gives no details about his life or family. It also gives no account of the circumstances beyond the execution itself.
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.