Convicted (along with two male accomplices) of the 1953 robbery and murder of Mabel Monahan, an elderly widow, in Burbank, California. She was executed on June 3, 1955. Her case received significant media attention.
Background
Barbara Graham was an American woman convicted of murder and executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin. She was one of the few women executed in California in the 20th century.
Contemporary news coverage (Los Angeles Times, etc.) and California execution records
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