Deaths in Custody
Executed

Sam Hall

died September 8, 1927 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Sam Hall, a Black man, was executed by the State of Alabama in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery on September 8, 1927, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department lists the cause as execution, and the record gives no details of his age, family, or work. He was held in state custody at Kilby Prison at the time of his death.

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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