Executed
Roosevelt Collins
Roosevelt Collins, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on June 11, 1937, by the State of Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists the death as an execution. The available record gives no further account of his life, family, or the circumstances of his case.
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.