Im afraid that link rot is a frequent problem as posts age. Graham's execution to held soon. "Stories like Barbara Graham's are really significant because they show you how the system works - or doesn't.". And in "The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison," published in 2007," the author profiled the first woman on Death Row in California -- a former Palm Springs hotel manager who was "good with the pistols and the ponies.". * Given the standard advice for gas chamber clientele that breathing deeply makes it all go down easy, Graham aptly retorted, How in the hell would you know?, Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Arts and Literature,California,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Gallows Humor,Gassed,History,Murder,Pelf,USA,Women, Tags: 1950s, 1955, academy awards, barbara graham, cinema, emmett perkins, heroin, jack santo, june 3, lindsay wagner, mabel monohan, san quentin prison, susan hayward. Photo taken by the Los Angeles Police Department, City Jail.
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