Albert Everette Sala

Albert Everette Sala

Murderer
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Case Facts
Gender
male
Country
USA
Location
Elko County, Nevada, USA
Date of birth
1909
Age at first offence
36
Characteristics
robbery, hitchhiking
Victim profile
Albert McCollum
Method of murder
Hitting with a monkey wrench and a hammer
Date(s) of murder
September 6, 1945
Years active
1945
Date of arrest
—
Status
Executed

Executed by asphyxiation-gas in Nevada on August 23, 1946

Case Summary

Background

Albert Everette Sala was a native of Oakland, California, and he was 38 years old at the time of his execution. He had an extensive criminal record going back to when he was thirteen.

Sala was serving a sentence for rape in San Quentin in California when he escaped from a harvesting gang on September 6, 1945.

The offence

Sala was convicted of killing Albert McCollum in Elko County in eastern Nevada on September 6, 1945.

After hitchhiking that day, Sala was picked up by McCollum. They traveled together across Nevada. In the eastern portion of the state, Sala decided to rob McCollum. Sala could not find all the money he thought McCollum had, so he kept beating the victim with a monkey wrench and a hammer. McCollum later died of his injuries.

Sentencing

Sala was executed in the Nevada State Prison on August 23, 1946.

Outcome

Albert Everette Sala was executed by asphyxiation-gas in Nevada on August 23, 1946.

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