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SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA (KPLC) - Toni Jo Henry is the only woman to be executed by Louisiana’s electric chair, and it happened at the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse. Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she ...
It was Valentine’s Day, 1940, and Toni Jo Henry had planned a perfect surprise, sure to show her sweetie just how much she loved him. She was going to bust him out of jail. No easy task ...
Louisiana sentenced Toni Jo Henry to the electric chair in 1942, making the 26-year-old convicted murderer the only woman in the state’s history to be executed that way. Her story comes to the ...