Anna Antonia
On the night before her execution, aged 28, (and after 2
false runs in which she was last-minute reprieved) they gave her a sedative
to help her sleep. She did not sleep that entire night but sat up
staring at the cell wall. She sat grimly in the barber's chair as
her hair was cut off and waited the 15 hours until the time of her execution.
She wore a blue dress to die in with dark stockings, which they slit to
allow access of the electrode to her leg.
They came for her at 11pm and walked her the 'last mile' to the
death chamber. The room opened to a bright light, full of faces staring
at her, and the chair. She wlaked up to it and sat down. The
matrons strapped her around her chest whilst the guards strapped her arms
as they held her.
They stood back a few feet and the official signalled by dropping
his arm. The excutioner sent three long shocks through her body.
She was pronounced dead by the doctor at 11.17pm, August 12th 1934.
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