Biography
Percy Irvin was a Black man executed by electrocution at Kilby Prison, Alabama, on March 11, 1932, alongside Isaac Mims. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights denounced the executions as racial terror, and the International Labor Defense publicized their case. The execution register records the offense as robbery and murder; contemporary defense reporting challenged the prosecution and described the case as involving the theft of fifty cents.
The March 21, 1932 Daily Worker reports Irvin and Mims electrocuted just after midnight on March 11 at Kilby Prison and describes the League of Struggle for Negro Rights campaign against their executions. Its characterization as execution for fifty-cent larceny is incomplete beside the existing corroborated robbery-murder prosecution; the formal charges are retained. The article corroborates the execution endpoint, without supplying an intake day or a numerical custody total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n068-NY-mar-21-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
