Dovie Blanche Dean

a 55-year-old Clermont County mother of 6 and a
grandmother - was executed Jan. 15, 1954.

She was convicted of putting arsenic-laced rat poison in the milk of her
newlywed farmer husband, 69-year-old Hawkins Dean.

The couple married April 13, 1952, one day after she was divorced from
her former husband who was in jail. Dean died 4 months later, on Aug.
22, 1952.


http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/rick-halperin/oct00/0046.html

http://www.cincypost.com/news/2000/dpensd092500.html