Louisiana Prison Warden Who Tried to Kill Wife Dies a Prisoner
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A former warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary imprisoned for trying to kill his estranged wife died last month as he sought a medical clemency from a 50-year sentence.
C. Murray Henderson, who headed Angola from 1968 until 1974, died in Earl K. Long Medical Center in Baton Rouge on Sept. 16. He was 84.
Henderson had been confined to the Hunt Correctional Center at St. Gabriel, where he was serving his sentence for attempted second-degree murder in the 1997 shooting of Anne Butler at her St. Francisville home.
The Louisiana Pardon Board rejected a clemency request from Henderson in February. After that, he suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and unable to speak.
After leaving Angola, Henderson served as head of the Tennessee prison system from 1974 to 1978.
