BARBARA GRAHAM

'Barbara Graham', ''née'' Barbara Elaine Wood (June 26, 1923 in Oakland, California - June 3, 1955 at San Quentin) was an American criminal and convicted murderer who was executed in the gas chamber along with two accomplices.
Graham, a prostitute and drug addict nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, was convicted of beating elderly widow Mabel Monahan to death during a botched robbery in March 1953 in Burbank, California. She was introduced to her accomplices by her fourth husband, Henry Graham, a career criminal and father of her son, Tommy (she had 2 sons by her first husband).

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Films about Graham

Susan Hayward won an Academy Award for playing Graham in the movie ''I Want to Live!'' (1958). The film strongly suggests Graham was innocent. However, it is largely fiction (especially how the police found and arrested her), and evidence clearly pointed to her guilt. She was also played by Lindsay Wagner in a 1983 version of ''I Want to Live!''.

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★ Barbara Graham web page

★ "''I Want to Live!'' Federal Judicial values in Death Penalty Cases: Preservation of Rights or Punctuality of Execution?"