Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Albert Everette Sala
Albert Sala was executed in the Nevada State Prison on August 23, 1946. Sala was convicted of killing Albert McCollum in Elko County, Nevada on September 6, 1945. He had an extensive criminal record dating back to age thirteen and was serving a sentence for rape in California's San Quentin prison when he escaped from a harvesting gang on September 6, 1945. Later that day, as he was hitch hiking, he was picked up by McCollum. Once they reached eastern Nevada, Sala decided to rob McCollum, but could not find all the money he thought the victim had so he beat the man with a monkey wrench and a hammer. McCollum later died of his injuries. Sala, a native of Oakland, California, was thirty-eight years old at the time of his death.
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