Editing Barbara Graham (section)

{{short description|American convicted murderer (1923–1955)}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Barbara Graham
| image             = Barbara Graham (murderer).png
| caption           = 1953 mugshot of Graham
| birth_name        = Barbara Elaine Ford
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1923|6|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Oakland, California]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1955|6|3|1923|6|26|mf=y}}
| death_place       = [[San Quentin State Prison]], [[San Quentin, California]], U.S.
| alias             = Bloody Babs
| motive            = [[Robbery]]
| conviction        = [[First degree murder]]
| spouse            = 
| children          = 3
| conviction_penalty = [[Capital punishment|Death]]
| conviction_status = [[Execution by gas chamber|Executed by gas chamber]]
}}

'''Barbara Elaine "Bonnie"''' '''Wood''' '''Graham''' (née '''Ford'''; June 26, 1923 – June 3, 1955) was an American criminal convicted of murder. She was executed in the [[gas chamber]] at [[San Quentin Prison]] on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, all of whom were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow. Nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, Graham was the third woman in California to be executed by gas.<ref name=oshea>{{cite book|last=O'Shea|first=Kathleen A. |title=Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900–1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999|pages=70|isbn=0-275-95952-X}}</ref>

Her story of adult criminal activity is told in the highly fictionalized 1958 film ''[[I Want to Live!]]'', in which she was portrayed by [[Susan Hayward]], who won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].