Elena

But on June 28th, 1894, she was transferred from Monticello to Dannemora Prison in upstate New York.

I feel like we end up talking about that prison so much.

And she was held there.

She was going to be held there until her execution.

Only a few weeks into her sentence, Governor Roswell Flower, influenced by the prison reform movement.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

What a gorgeous name.

He was influenced by the prison reform movement and public opinion about Lizzie's case.

He assembled a commission to review her medical records and make a definitive determination as to her present mental state.

Yeah.

This was not to determine whether she was sane at the time of the murders, like I was saying before.

It was to determine whether she should continue to be held in prison or have her sentence commuted and be transferred to a psychiatric hospital.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They knew she did it.

They knew she knew she did it.

She knew it was wrong.

But obviously there's something here.

The commission began their investigation on July 12th, and they started with a thorough review of her long legal and mental health history.

Other studies included physical examinations, interviews, and making a plaster cast of her head.