Horace DeVaughn

Horace DeVaughn

First person executed by electric chair in Alabama (died 1927)

📍 Birmingham, Alabama USA

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Horace DeVaughn was an American man convicted of double murder, and the first person to be executed by the electric chair in Alabama. DeVaughn was convicted of the double robberies and murders of Auburn B. Moore and Mrs. Ruby Thornton, which he committed fewer than three months prior to his execution. Prior to the double murder, DeVaughn also served time in Virginia for a third murder.

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