Deaths in Custody
Executed

Tom Williams

died April 14, 1939 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Tom Williams was a man held in the custody of the State of Alabama at Kilby Prison in Montgomery. According to the Alabama Department of Corrections, the state executed him in the electric chair at that prison on April 14, 1939. The department's execution record classifies his death as a homicide carried out by the state.

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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