Executed
Willie J. Whitfield
Willie J. Whitfield, a Black man, was held in the custody of Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections reports that the state executed him in the electric chair at the prison on August 19, 1938. The department lists the cause of death as execution and the manner as homicide.
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.