Deaths in Custody
Executed

Wilmon Gosa

died August 31, 1962 · Kilby Prison, Montgomery County, Alabama

Wilmon Gosa, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair at Kilby Prison in Montgomery, Alabama, on August 31, 1962, by the State of Alabama, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. The department's record lists the death as an execution and classes it as a 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.

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