Tag: Gruesome Gertie

• On This Day in 1942 – Toni Jo Henry, Louisiana’s first (and only) woman to be electrocuted.

  

  Toni Jo Henry or, to use her proper name, Annie Beatrice McQuiston, holds a singular place in the criminal history of the State of Louisiana. Not even fellow Louisiana murderess Louise Peete (executed in California five years later) holds quite so individual a niche. They were both from Louisiana, were both murderers and both were executed but,…

  CrimeScribe

  November 28, 2022

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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