Mary Surratt
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.
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Ann Moore
English fraudster, “the fasting-woman of Tutbury”
Susan Eberhart
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.
Dolours Price
Irish republican paramilitary
Coline Williams
South African political activist
Mary Ann Bugg
Worimi bushranger Mary Ann Bugg was one of several female bandits documented as being active in mid-1800s Australia.
Alexandrina Askew
British-Australian “lady swindler”
Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
Mary Reibey
At the age of 34, Mary Reibey was a widow with seven children, taking care of farms, ships and a warehouse.
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet