"Frankly, by today's standards, with a decent attorney, Barbara Graham would have not been convicted," said Bakken, editor of the 2010 book "Invitation to an Execution: A History of the Death Penalty in the United States."
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common-law wife of Jack Santo. Although the movie didn't shy away from depicting Graham as "risk-taking or anti-authoritarian," Cairns said, it did emphasize her vulnerability -- portraying her as "an innocent woman sent to her death by arrogant, uncaring men.". * 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.