Deaths in Custody
Executed

Willie J. Johnson

died February 3, 1932 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Willie J. Johnson was put to death in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 3, 1932, a judicial execution carried out by the State of Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections lists the death as an execution. The available record says nothing about his family, work, or who he was beyond his name, and it gives no account of the events leading to 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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