Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
Together with Harold Burks, she took a ride with Joseph P.
Calloway, whom they then robbed and murdered.
Toni Jo Henry was convicted and sentenced to death.
After three trials, she was executed by electrocution on November 28, 1942.
Her case generated several popular books and films including A Savage Wisdom and Stone Justice.