Category Archives: Crime

1700s Canadian woman executed for killing her husband

Cannadian convicted murderer

On July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt became the first woman ever to be executed by the United States government for her part in the Lincoln assassination.

English fraudster, “the fasting-woman of Tutbury”

Her 1873 execution was among the most publicized and controversial in the state’s history and had a significant influence on the administration of capital punishment in Georgia.