| 词条 | Nellie May Madison |
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|name = Nellie May Madison |image = Nellie May Madison.jpg |image_size = |caption = Parole application photo of Nellie May Madison taken in 1941. |birth_date = April 5, 1895 |birth_place = Red Rock, Montana |death_date = July 8, 1953 (aged 58) |death_place = San Bernardino, California |penalty = Death (commuted to life in 1935, granted clemency in 1943) |date = March 24, 1934 |locations = Burbank, California |fatalities = 1 |weapons = handgun |motive = ending spousal abuse |other_names = }} Nellie May Madison (née Mooney) (April 5, 1895–July 8, 1953) was an American woman who was convicted of murder in 1934 for killing her husband.[1] She was the first woman to be sentenced to death in the state of California. Due to public outcry, her sentence was later commuted to life in prison and she was eventually released. Her case helped garner legitimacy for the abuse defense, a concept virtually unknown at the time in criminal cases.[2] The case was the subject of a 2015 episode of Investigation Discovery's series A Crime to Remember. Early lifeShe was born in Red Rock, Montana and raised in the nearby community of Dillon.[1] She was trained to be a natural survivalist of the mountains. Prior to her marriage to Eric Madison, she had an annulment from a 23-year-old ex-convict when she was 13. She also later married and divorced three different men. She had no children.[3] Murder and convictionOn March 24, 1934 at their home in Burbank, California, after alleged repeated spousal abuse episodes by her husband Eric Madison, Nellie Madison pointed a gun at Eric while he was changing out of his day clothes with the intent on threatening him. He quickly reached under the bed for a box of butcher knives and allegedly threatened to cut her heart out. As he was reaching for a knife, Nellie shot Eric in the back five times, killing him. Nellie Madison was later arrested and tried for the murder of her husband. Even before he knew all the facts, Los Angeles County District Attorney Buron Fitts sought the death penalty for Madison. On advice of her lawyers, Madison made no mention of the spousal abuse and claimed she was not at the scene of the murder. As her story was implausible, a jury convicted her and Judge Charles Fricke sentenced her to death. On appeal, the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction. AppealAfter sentencing, Madison's ex-husband, whom she was still friends with, urged her to make the spousal abuse episodes public. When pleading her case to Fricke, he refused to reduce the sentence and dismissed the allegations of domestic violence as "ridiculous." But soon Madison began receiving public support, including from prominent journalist "Aggie" Underwood. Underwood discovered that Eric Madison had beaten both Nellie and his ex-wife into signing a similar confession stating they were unfaithful in their marriage, when in fact, it was Eric who had been unfaithful and having affairs with teenage girls.[3] All of the jurors who convicted Madison petitioned Governor Frank Merriam to commute the sentence. In September 1935, Merriam commuted Madison's sentence to life in prison. After she waged a letter-writing campaign from prison to reduce her sentence, Governor Culbert Olson had Madison freed from prison on March 27, 1943, exactly nine years and three days after the murder. Later lifeIn the fall of 1943, she settled in San Bernardino, where she married her sixth husband, house painter John Wagner. It was her longest marriage. She died there on July 8, 1953 after a stroke.[1] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|last1=Cairns|first1=Kathleen A.|title=Madison, Nellie May|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01909.html|website=American National Biography Online|publisher=American Council of Learned Societies|accessdate=18 May 2017|date=October 2008}} 2. ^{{cite book | last =Cairns | first =Kathleen A. | title =The enigma woman: the death sentence of Nellie May Madison | publisher =University of Nebraska Press | year =2007 | location = | pages = | isbn =0-8032-1141-4}} 3. ^1 A Crime to Remember, Season 3 Episode 7, "Damsel on Death Row", December 22, 2015.
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