Deaths in Custody
Executed

Robert Skelton

died June 15, 1928 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Robert Skelton, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 15, 1928, by the State of Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections records the execution as a judicial execution carried out by the state. The available source gives no further details about who he was, his family, or the circumstances of his case, and no account from family or others is included here.

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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