Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie J. Brandon

died August 9, 1940 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Willie J. Brandon was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama. The Department of Corrections reported that the State of Alabama executed him in the electric chair at the prison on August 9, 1940. Their account gives the date, place and method 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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