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New page: '''Sirena Jackson''' was a Pensacola woman who killed her husband, Ben Jackson, by striking him in the head with an axe and then strangling him with a rope in July 1898. According ...
'''Sirena Jackson''' was a Pensacola woman who killed her husband, [[Ben Jackson]], by striking him in the head with an axe and then strangling him with a rope in July [[1898]]. According to neighbors, Ben regularly beat his wife, and Sirena told them she feared for her life. After the neighbors saw Ben's dead body in a pool of blood on [[July 7]], 1898, [[Escambia County Sheriff's Office|Deputy Sheriff]] [[F. D. Saunders]] apprehended Sirena on a train leaving the city.
In the December 1898 trial, Sirena pleaded "not guilty," claiming the act was committed in necessary self-defense. In January 1899 a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation for mercy. She was sentenced to life in prison.
==References==
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*Vivien Miller. "Wife-Killers and Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons and Respectability in Florida, 1889-1914." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Volume 75, Number 1, Summer 1996.
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[[Category:Victims of domestic violence|Jackson, Sirena]] [[Category:Murderers|Jackson, Sirena]]
In the December 1898 trial, Sirena pleaded "not guilty," claiming the act was committed in necessary self-defense. In January 1899 a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation for mercy. She was sentenced to life in prison.
==References==
{{refbegin}}
*Vivien Miller. "Wife-Killers and Evil Temptresses: Gender, Pardons and Respectability in Florida, 1889-1914." ''Florida Historical Quarterly'', Volume 75, Number 1, Summer 1996.
{{refend}}
[[Category:Victims of domestic violence|Jackson, Sirena]] [[Category:Murderers|Jackson, Sirena]]
