Dora Wright and Charles Barrett - a double hanging in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. Dora Wright and Charles Barrett had been convicted of separate murders in the United States court at South McAlester before Judge W. H. H. Clayton at the end of May and the beginning of June 1903, respectively. Both were sentenced to death on Wednesday the 3rd of June 1903. According to the shorthand notes of the court stenographer the following was the exact language used : The Court: “Barrett, you stand convicted of murder. You were defended by a lawyer of your choice and tried by a jury substantially of your own selection, and the jury has found you guilty of murder. Have you anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against you? Prisoner - No response. “The sentence of the law as pronounced by the court against you, Charles Barrett, for the crime of murder, of which you stand convicted in this court, is, that the marshal of this district shall now ...