Nannie Hazle

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Her court-appointed attorneys were Gordon Palterson and Quinn Dickason.  [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1955_03_15-0002&rc=2973,429,3080,454;3095,429,3125,454;3141,429,3248,454&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500808706 This article] states that she was declared insane by the psychiatrists after the 90-day period.  They recommended that she be committed to Eastern State Hospital for treatment.  A sanity trial followed.
 
Her court-appointed attorneys were Gordon Palterson and Quinn Dickason.  [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1955_03_15-0002&rc=2973,429,3080,454;3095,429,3125,454;3141,429,3248,454&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500808706 This article] states that she was declared insane by the psychiatrists after the 90-day period.  They recommended that she be committed to Eastern State Hospital for treatment.  A sanity trial followed.
  
District Judge Elmer Adams [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1955_06_03-0024&rc=50,183,225,266;254,183,371,266&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500894744 sentenced Nannie] to life in prison for the murder by poisoning of Samuel Doss, his only other choice being the electric chair.  Nannie Doss died in prison in 1965 of leukemia.  The [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1965_06_03-0034&rc=781,196,995,284;1031,196,1210,284;313,450,403,475;417,450,492,475&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=506137634 notice of her death] was published in the ''Albuquerque Journal'' [[Jun 3]], 1965 : "Admitted Killing Four Mates - Leukemia Fatal to Nannie Doss, Husband-Poisoner of Oklahoma" stating that she had been incarcerated at the state penitentiary at McAlester, but was brought to the University Hospital in Oklahoma on May 20 where she died that same night. "Survivors include a daughter Melvina Leonard, who lives at Krebbs."
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District Judge Elmer Adams [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1955_06_03-0024&rc=50,183,225,266;254,183,371,266&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500894744 sentenced Nannie], taking into account her probable insanity, and the bad precedent it would set for her to be the first woman executed by electric chair in Oklahoma, sentenced Nannie to life in prison for the murder by poisoning of Samuel Doss.  Other states had served murder warrants, but they did not bring charges, nor ask for extredition. Nannie Doss died in University Hospital in 1965 of leukemia, the day she was brought there from prison.  The [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1965_06_03-0034&rc=781,196,995,284;1031,196,1210,284;313,450,403,475;417,450,492,475&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=506137634 notice of her death] was published in the ''Albuquerque Journal'' [[Jun 3]], 1965 : "Admitted Killing Four Mates - Leukemia Fatal to Nannie Doss, Husband-Poisoner of Oklahoma" stating that she had been incarcerated at the state penitentiary at McAlester, but was brought to the University Hospital in Oklahoma on May 20 where she died that same night. "Survivors include a daughter Melvina Leonard, who lives at Krebbs."
  
 
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