A prostitute and small-time criminal, Barbara Graham willingly joined her lover in a botched burglary that ended in the brutal killing of Mabel Monahan in Burbank, California.

A new book by former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark raises questions about the tactics used to convict Barbara Graham, the brassy "dice girl" who in 1955 was executed at San Quentin for the murder ...

Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth About the Case of Barbara Graham Marcia Clark. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (284p) ISBN 978-1-6625-1596-5 ...

70 years ago, California executed a woman. Marcia Clark’s new book calls it unjust. In ‘Trial by Ambush,’ the author and former O.J. Simpson prosecutor argues that Barbara Graham was the ...