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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Female Serial Killers Executed


Peter Vronsky’s 1997 list of female serial killers includes 27 who were executed: Barfield, Beets, Brinvilliers, Buenoano, Cage, Chesham, Cotton, Dazely, Dean, Deshayes, Dyer, Flanagan, Freeman, Gottfried, Hahn, Higgins, Jegado, Joyce, Lipka, Marek, May, Milner, Rendell, La Tofania, Margaret Waters, Catherine Wilson, Zwanziger.

The following list contains 135 cases of female serial killers who have been executed. An addendum contains cases in which the death penalty was ordered but was either commuted or in which the prisoner is awaiting execution. [In 10 cases listed here two women were executed at once.]

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Mar. 17, 1542 – Margaret Davey (Davie) – Smithfield, England – boiled.

Sep. 20, 1587 – Walpurga Hausmännin – Augsburg, Austria – Paraded through town and, in five stages, tortured, right hand cut off, then burned alive at the stake.

June 1609 – Jane Hattersley – East Grinstead, Sussex, England – execution method not yet determined.

Apr. 17, 1635 Elizabeth Evans London, England hanged at Newgate gallows.

Dec. 22, 1658 – Abigall Hill – executed at Cheapside, England – hanged.

1659 – Gratiosa – Rome, Italy – hanged.

Jul. 1659 – Giulia Tofana – Rome, Italy – hanged.

1673 – Louise Mabre, “Murderous Midwife” – Paris, France – was sentenced to be shut up in an iron cage with sixteen wild cats and suspended over a low fire.

Jul. 17, 1676 – Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers Paris, France – tortured, beheaded, corpse burned at the stake.

Feb. 22, 1680 – Catherine Deshayes “La Voisin,” – Paris, France – at Place de Grève, burned to death publicly.

Mar. 24, 1684 – Elizabeth Ridgway – Leicester-shire, England – burned at the stake.

Oct. 23, 1693 Mary Compton Tyburn, England “executed.”

May 3, 1740 – Elizabeth & Mary Branch – Ilchester, England – both hanged.

Jan. 7, 1761 – Dorcas Kelly – Dublin, Ireland – burned, then still alive, hanged.

May 24, 1771 – Anne & Alte Chistophersdatter – Norway – axe decapitation.
 
Jul. 1, 1772 – Luisa de Jesus – Coimbra (Lisbon), Portugal – carried through the streets of Lisbon, whipped, hanged and then publicly burnt.

1775 – Aarne Spanjers – Twente, Netherlands – place and method of execution not yet determined; husband executed Sep. 13, 1775.

Jul. 30, 1789 Giovanna Bonanno Palermo, Sicily hanged.

May 16, 1808 – Catherine Bouhours ("Auguste Manette") – Paris, France – executed at the age of 22 (25?); guillotine.

Mar. 20, 1809 – Mary Bateman – Leeds, England – hanged, skeleton preserved & displayed.

Sep. 17, 1811 Anna Maria Zwanziger – Bamberg, Bavaria – beheaded by sword.

Jun. 15, 1812 – Hester Rebecca Nepping – Amsterdam, Netherlands – guillotined with 2 accomplices (male ans female).

1814 – “Malága Black Widow” – Malága, Spain – hanged.

Sep. 16, 1816 – Susannah Holroyd – Lancaster, England – hanged.

1816 – Rachel Clark – Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA – hanged.

Spring 1819 – Ane Nielsdatter – Copenhagen, Denmark – beheaded, presumably with axe.

Jun. 22, 1828 – Jane Scott – Lancaster, England – hanged.

Sep. 16, 1829 – Francoise Trenque – Auch, France – guillotined.

Apr. 21, 1831 – Gesche Gottfried – Bremen, Germany – beheaded by sword.

Sep. 22, 1832 – Anne & Marit Forrestadstuen – Ringebu, Oppland, Norway – beheaded at Ringebu.

1835 – Margarete Jäger (Joyer, Jager, Jaeger, Jaeyer) – Mainz (Mentz), Swabia (Germany) – sentenced to death on Mar. 24, 1835, presumably executed.

Apr. 10, 1835 – Frances "Fanny" Billing, with Catherine Frary – Norwich, England – hanged.

Apr. 19, 1836 – Betty Rowland – House of Correction, Kirkdale, Liverpool - hanged.

1840 – Catherine Labalue (Carron) – Liège, Belgium – sentenced to death on Nov. 20, 1840 – presumably executed.

Mar. 28, 1840 – Marie-Barbe Ravez (Quénardel) – Verzenay, France – guillotine.

1841 (date of  report) – "Oxford Skeleton Black Widow" – Oxford, England.

Apr. (?), 1842 – Françoise Serval (Chamblais) – Retournac, Haute-Loire, France. – sentenced to death. Mar. 23, 1842; appeal rejected Apr. 21, 1842 – presumably executed.

May 6, 1843 Elizabeth Eccles – Liverpool, England – hanged at Kirkdale Prison.

Aug. 5, 1843 Sarah Dazely Bedford, England hanged.

Aug. 2, 1844 Eliza Joyce Lincoln, England hanged.

Apr. 23, 1845 Sarah Freeman Somerset, England hanged.

May 23, 1845 Elizabeth Reed Lawrenceville, Illinois hanged.

Jul. 29, 1847 – Mary Ann Milner – Lincoln Castle, England – suicide day before execution date (Jul. 30)

Nov. 9, 1847 – Mary Runkle – Whitesboro, Oneida Cty., N. Y. – hanged.

1848 – Rose Theyre – Nimes, France – sentenced on Feb.? 1848, presumably executed.

Aug. 14, 1848 Mary May Chelmsford, England hanged.

Aug. 21, 1849 Mary Ann Geering – Lewes Assizes – Norwich, England – hanged.

Sep. 1, 1849 – Rebecca Smith – Devizes, England – hanged at New Prison.

Jul. 8, 1850 – Marie-Catherine Moitrier Segard (Ségard) – Nancy, France – guillotined.

Mar. 25, 1851 Sarah Chesham Chelmsford, England – hanged at Springfield Prison.

Aug. 8, 1851 Mary Emily Cage Ipswich, England hanged.

Feb. 26, 1852 Hélène Jégado – Rennes, France – guillotined in Champs de Mars.

June 9, 1852 – Margaret C. Waldegrave – Havana, Cuba – hanged.

Oct. 7, 1854 – Marie (Gautherot) Gagey – Dijon, France – execution method not yet determined.

Nov. 13, 1855 – Clarissa – Yorkville, South Carolina, USA – hanged.
 
1861 Theresa of Sicily Istanbul, Turkey Sentenced to be strangled in front of own house.

Dec. 21, 1861 – Ane Cathrine Andersdatter – Rødovre Mark, Denmark – beheaded, presumably with axe.

Oct. 20, 1862 – Catherine Wilson – London, England – hanged at Newgate Gaol.

Jan. 19, 1866 – Martha Grinder – Pittsburgh, Pa. – hanged.

Oct. 11, 1870 Margaret Waters – County of Surrey, England – hanged at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

Dec. 3, 1872 Wilhelmine Woltmann (or, Woltman, Waltman) – Stade, Germany – beheaded with axe.

Mar. 24, 1873 – Mary Ann Cotton – Durham, England – hanged.

1873 Rose Porro & Margarite Coraldi  Naples, Italy – beheaded with axe.

Feb. 18, 1876 – Sofie Johannesdotter – Borgermesterløkken, in Fredrikshald (Halden), Norway – beheaded with axe.

Jan. 4, 1876 – Sophie Gautié Bouyou – Cahors, France – guillotine.

Nov. 30, 1882 – Anna Nagy (AKA Kathi Lyukas) – Stein-am-Anger, Szerdaltely, Hungary – hanged.

Mar. 3, 1884 – Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins Liverpool, England hanged.

1884 – Trailokya ("Troylucko Raur") – Calcutta, India – hanged.

Aug. 9, 1886 Mary Ann Britland Manchester, England – hanged at Strangeways Gaol.

Aug. 18, 1886 –  Eliza Wood – Jackson, Tennessee – lynched by mob of 1,000 or more.

Mar. 14, 1887 – Elizabeth Berry – Oldham, England – hanged at Walton Gaol, Liverpool.

Early Dec. 1887 – Kate & Kit Kelly (Kelly Family) – No Man’s Land, Kansas, USA – lynched by a posse.

Jun. 25, 1889 Sarah Whiteling Philadelphia, Pa.hanged at Moyamensing prison. 

May 1890 – Paranka MaksymischinJanowiec Wielkopolski, Galicia (Poland); tried in Lviv, Galicia – hanged.

May 24, 1893 – Dorothee Buntrock – Osnabrück, Germany – beheaded by ax at Magdeburg.

Jan. 15, 1894 – Frances Knorr – Melbourne, Australia – hanged.

Oct. 22, 1894 – Martha Needle – Melbourne, Australia – hanged at Old Melbourne Jail.

Aug. 12, 1895 – Williamina “Minnie” Dean Invercargill, New Zealand – hanged at Invercargill Jail.

Jun. 10, 1896 – Amelia Dyer – London, England – hanged at Newgate Prison.

Mar. 6, 1900 Ada Chard Williams – London, England – hanged at Newgate Prison.

1903 – Anna (Caroline) Przygodda – Olsztyn, East Prussia  (currently Poland) – executed in the prison yard – (hanged?).

Feb. 3, 1903 Amelia Sach and Annie Walters London, England – hanged at Holloway prison.

Feb. 3, 1905 – Elisabeth Wiese – Hamburg, Germany – guillotined.

Apr. 30, 1908 – Ernestine Feige (Pauline Scholz) – Metz, Silesia – beheaded, at Fürstenberg Court Prison.

Jun. 23, 1908 – Grete Beier – Brand, Saxony (Germany) – guillotined.

Jul. 1909 – Ischi Minogata & Akino Kawabarg – Osaka, Japan – Harikawa Prison – method not stated.

Oct. 6,  1909 – Martha Rendell – Fremantle, Australia – hanged at Fremantle Prison.

Jan. 8, 1911 – Auguste Mitkoweit – Chernyakhovst, Kalingrad Oblast, Russia – hanging (?),

1912 Enriqueta Martí – Barcelona, Spain – technically, she was not executed; she was apparently murdered in prison by inmates to punish her for child abuse (a common phenomenon in prisons) while awaiting execution.

May 17, 1916 – Henriette Holstein – Pustlauk, Labiau District, Prussia – hanged.

1921 – Ekaterina Pishianova – Russia – survived execution by firing squad by trickery; was captured a second time and then presumably successfully executed.

Dec. 21, 1921 – Raya & Sekina Aly Hammam – Alexandria, Egypt – both hanged.

Apr. 7, 1922 – Józefina Paśnik – Warsaw, Poland – firing squad (SK couple).

Jun. 18, 1923 – Sofia Komaroff – Moscow, Soviet Union – she and husband Vasili were executed Jun. 18, 1923 – executed by firing squad.

1924 – "Old Mother" Djao – Ichowfu, Shantung, China – lingche ("death by a thousand cuts").

Jan. 9, 1925 – Zhang Suzhen, “Camel Dragon” – Manchuria (China) – shot.

1927 – Maria Vukitch – Kikinda, Serbia (Jugoslavia) – hanged.

Jun. 17, 1929 – Esther Szabo – Szolnok, Hungary – hanged.

1929 – Juliane Lipka – Szolnok, Hungary – sentenced on Dec. 15?, 1929, presumably hanged soon after.

Jan. 13, 1931 – Marie Kardos – Skolnok, Hungary – hanged.

Jun. 17, 1931 – Christine Chordas – Skolnok, Hungary – hanged.

Dec. 30, 1932 – Daisy De Melker – Pretoria, South Africa – hanged at Pretoria Central Prison.

Dec. 7, 1934 – Anna Marie Hahn – Columbus, Ohio – electric chair, Ohio Penitentiary.

1935 – Julianne Nagy – Debreczen, Hungary – sentenced to death, Feb. 5, 1935, presumably hanged.

1935 – Milka Pavlovich – Belovar, Yugoslavia – sentenced to hang on May 19, 1935, presumably executed soon thereafter.

Jul. 16, 1936 – Mary Creighton – Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing Prison.

Feb. 5, 1937 – Frieda Vogler – Mainz-Kostheim, Germany – hanged.

Dec. 6, 1938 – Martha Marek – Vienna, Austria – guillotined.

Dec. 13, 1945 Irma Grese Hamelin, Germany hanged.

Apr. 11, 1947 – Louise Peete – San Quentin, California – gas chamber, San Quentin State Prison.

Apr. 10, 1948 – Madeleine Le Valler Mouton Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria – guillotined, Place Carnot.

Mar. 8, 1951 – Martha Beck – Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing prison.

Feb. 16, 1954 – Teresa Gómez Rubio – Valencia, Spain – executed by garotte.

Dec. 12, 1954 – Piroska Jancsó Ladányi – Törökszentmiklós, Hungary – hanged, Szolnok courtyard prison

Oct. 11, 1957 – Rhonda Belle Martin – Montgomery, Alabama – electric chair, Kilby Prison.

May 19, 1959 – Pilar Prades – Valencia, Spain – garrote.

Apr. 13, 1961Marie Fikáčková – Prague, Czechoslovakia hanged at Pankrác Prison.

Apr. 10, 1965 – Ekaterini Dimetrea (Aikaterini Dimitrea) – Nafplio (“Nauplion”), Greece – given 4 death sentences in 1963; executed in Athens, at Goudi, by firing squad.

Nov. 12, 1984 – Velma Barfield – Raleigh, North Carolina – lethal injection, Central Prison.

Sep. 27, 1985 – Yan Shuxia – Shaanxi, China – method not noted.

1987 – Tamara Ivanyutina (SK family) – Kiev, Ukraine (Soviet Union) – execution method not yet determined.
 
1995 – Ma Yanhong – Heilongjiang province, China – single shot to the head.

June 26, 1997 – Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy – Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, Tx. – lethal injection.

Mar. 30, 1998 – Judias Welty Buenoano – Starke, Florida – electric chair.

Jan. 18, 1999 – Dao Ruiying – China – execution method not stated.

Feb. 27, 2000 – Betty Lou Beets – Huntsville, Texas – executed by lethal drugs, Huntsville Prison.

Oct. 9, 2002 – Aileen Wuornos – Starke, Florida – lethal injection, Florida State Prison.

May 20, 2005 – Astini (aka Bu Lakri) – Surabaya East Java, Indonesia – sentenced in 1996; firing squad.

Dec. 20, 2010 Mahin Qadiri Qazvin, Iran hanged.

Sep. 27, 2012 – Sachiko Eto – Sukagawa, Japan – hanged.

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• Sentenced to death but not executed; or awaiting execution • 


Aug. 30, 1849 (hanging day) – Letitia Page – New Boston, New Hampshire, USA – sentence reduced to life in prison; pardoned in 1861.

1851 – Nancy Farrer – Cincinnati, Ohio – sentenced to death early Feb. 30 [?] 1852, to be executed on Jun. 25, 1852; on appear she was found to be insane and sent to an asylum.

Sep. 8, 1859 – Polly Frisch – Alabama, Genessee County, New York – commuted by governor to life on Oct. 27, 1859; execution date had been set at Nov. 2, 1869.

1865 – Charlotte Windsor – England – sentenced to death; later commuted to life in prison.

1875 – Marguerite Léris Grieumard - Saint-Vincent, France; 4: husb, d, step-son, other rel.; 19 décembre 1875; Graciée le 29 janvier 1876.

1875 – Bouriant, Marie - Ainay-le-Vieil, France; 5 babies murdered; convicted; 24 avril 1875; Commuted: 16 juin 1875.

July 21, 1876 – Wilhelmina WeickSentenced on June 5, 1876; county, Erie; crime, murder; to be hanged July 21, 1876; commuted to life imprisonment on July 15, 1876.

Apr. 18, 1884 Angenette Haight sent to hang on Apr 18, commuted by Gov. Grover Cleveland.

1888 – Sarah Jane Robinson – Cambridge, Massachusetts – sentenced to hang, execution date: Nov. 16, 1888, yet efforts were made to have sentence commuted; commuted to life in prison in solitary confinement, Nov. 15, 1890.

Jan. 9, 1892 – Rosalie Schneider – Vienna, Austria – sentenced to death on Jan. 29, 1892; commuted on Mar. 17, 1892.

Mar. 1893 – Sarah Jane Makin – New South Wales, Australia – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Feb. 2, 1895 Marie Therese Joniaux-Ablay Antwerp, Belgium sentenced to death, but it was automatically commuted.

Feb. 28, 1912 – Frieda Trost – Philadelphia, Pa. – sentenced to death, commuted.

Feb. 28, 1914 – Cynthia Buffum – Salamanca, N. Y. – sentenced to death in 1915, retried and given 20 years.

Aug. 10, 1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Vienna, Austria – sentenced to death (Aug. 10?), outcome still undiscovered.

Mar. 3, 1921 – Dagmar Overbye – Copenhagen, Denmark – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Apr, 28, 1926 – Antoinette ScierriNimes, France – sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison.

Nov. 14, 1929 Lisa Karl Reims, France sentence to die by guillotine, but not executed (though her paramour accomplice was hanged on hanged.May 6, 1930)

1933 – Viktoria Rieger – Szegedin, Hungary – sentenced on Jan. 16?, 1933, sentence commuted Dec. 25, 1933.

1937 – Moulay Hassen (Oum-el-Hassen, or Umm-el-Hassan, alias Léonie Vallon) – sentenced to death by guillotine in Fez, Morocco. It was discovered in Dec. 1938, that in Nov. 1937 her execution was staged and falsely reported as the result of her great political influence and that she was alive and soon to be released from prison.

May 8, 1949 – Irmgard Swinka  – Bonn, Germany  – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Oct. 15, 1953 – Caroline Grills – Sydney, Australia – sentenced to death, commuted to life in prison.

Mar. 30, 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Wilson – Leeds, England – condemned to death, commuted.

Oct. 14, 1958 Anjette Donovan Lyles – Macon, Ga. – sentenced to death, commuted.

1980 – Laverne O’Bryan – Louisville, Ky. – sentenced to death plus a 20 year prison term, later the convictions were overturned.

Jan. 18, 1981 – Blanche Taylor Moore – Alamance Cty, N. C. – sentenced to death, but not executed.

1987 Chen Kao Lien-yen – Taipei, Taiwan; 7 children, cyanide pills

Aug. 31, 1989 – Cynthia Coffman  – San Bernardino, Ca. – sentenced to death with crime partner James Marlow on Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow were sentenced to death on August 31, 1989 in San Bernardino, California.

1990 – Martha Ann Johnson – Clayton County, Ga., sentence to death “commuted to life on appeal.”

April 18, 1991 – Dorothy Williams – Chicago, Illinois – sentenced to death, still waiting execution as of 2012. Commuted.

Apr. 27, 1991 – Faye Della Copeland – Mooresville, Missouri – Sentenced (with accomplice husband Ray, 76) to death by lethal injection, aged 69; commuted to life in prison in 1999.

1992 – Celeste Carrington – East Palo Alto, Cal – sentenced to death on Nov. 23, 1994; death sentence upheld on Jul. 28, 2009.

1996 – Anjanabai Gavit & daughters: Renuka Kiran Shinde,  Seema Mohan GavitPune, Kolhapur & Nashik, Maharashtra, India – commuted?

2004 – Le Thanh Van – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – sentenced to death.

Sep. 28, 2005 Junko Ogata – Japan  Fukuoka, Kyodo, Japan – sentenced to death; Sep. 28, 2005, commuted to life on Sep. 26, 2007.

2009 – Miyuki Ueta – Tottori Prefecture, Japan – Dec. 4, 2012 – Convicted, sentenced to death by hanging
Mar. 20, 2014 – sentence upheld

2010? – Lin Yuru – Taiwan – sentenced to death, commuted to 3 life imprisonments.

Mar. 30, 2012 K. D. Kempamma Bangladore, India sentenced to death, awaiting execution.

Apr. 13, 2012 Kanae Kijima – Tokyo, Japan – sentenced to death.

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NOTE: The reports stating that Lucretia "Patty" Cannon (USA; arrested 1829) either was executed or committed suicide are not supported by the evidence.

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EXECUTION METHODS:

Beheaded with Axe – 1819, Ane Nielsdatter, Denmark; 1861, Ane Cathrine Andersdatter, Denmark; 1872, Wilhelmina Woltmann (or, Woltman), Germany; 1873, Rose Porro & Margarite Coraldi, Italy; 1876, Sofie Johannesdotter, Norway.

Beheaded with Sword – 1811, Anna Maria Zwanziger, Bavaria; 1831, Gesche Gottfried, Germany.

Boiled Alive – 1542, Margaret Davey (Davie), England.

Burned Alive at Stake – 1680, Catherine Deshayes “La Voisin,” France; 1684, Elizabeth Ridgway, England;

Burned in cage with cats – 1673, Louise Mabre, France.

Electric Chair – 1934, Anna Marie Hahn, USA; 1936, Mary Creighton, USA; 1951, Martha Beck, USA; 1957 – Rhonda Belle Martin, USA; 1998, Judias Welty Buenoano, USA.

Firing Squad – 1921, Ekaterina Pishianova, Russia; 1922, Józefina Paśnik, Poland; 1923,  Sofia Komaroff – Soviet Union; 1965, Ekaterini Dimetrea (Aikaterini Dimitrea), Greece; 2005, Astini (aka Bu Lakri), Indonesia.

Garotte – 1954, Teresa Gómez Rubio, Spain.

Gas Chamber – 1947, Louise Peete, USA.

Guillotined – 1808, Catherine Bouhours, France; 1829, Francoise Trenque, France; 1840,  Marie-Barbe Ravez (Quénardel), France; 1850, Marie-Catherine Moitrier Segard (Ségard), France; 1852, Hélène Jégado, France; 1876, Sophie Gautié Bouyou, France; 1905, Elisabeth Wiese, Germany; 1908, Grete Beier, Saxony (Germany); 1938, Martha Marek, Austria.

Hanged – 1635, Elizabeth Evans, England; 1658, Abigall Hill, England; 1659 – Gratiosa, Italy; 1659, Giulia Tofana, Italy; 1740, Elizabeth & Mary Branch, England; 1789, Giovanna Bonanno, Sicily; 1809, Mary Bateman, England; 1814, “Malága Black Widow”, Spain; 1816, Susannah Holroyd, England; 1816, Rachel Clark, USA; 1828,  Jane Scott, England; 1835, Frances "Fanny" Billing, with Catherine Frary, England; 1843, Elizabeth Eccles, England; 1843, Sarah Dazely, England; 1844, Eliza Joyce, England; 1845, Sarah Freeman, England;1845 Elizabeth Reed, USA; 1847, Mary Runkle, USA, hanged; 1848, Rose Theyre, France; 1848, Mary May, England; 1849, Mary Ann Geering, England; 1849, Rebecca Smith, England; 1851, Sarah Chesham, England; 1851, Mary Emily Cage, England; 1855, Clarissa, USA; 1862, Catherine Wilson, England; 1866, Martha Grinder, USA; 1870, Margaret Waters, England; 1872,  1873, Mary Ann Cotton, England; 1882 – Kathi Lyukas (Nagy), Hungary; 1884 – Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins, England; 1886 Mary Ann Britland, England; 1887, Elizabeth Berry, England; 1889, Sarah Whiteling, USA; 1894, Frances Knorr, Australia; 1894, Martha Needle, Australia; 1895, Williamina “Minnie” Dean, New Zealand; 1896, Amelia Dyer, England; 1900, Ada Chard Williams, England; 1903, Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, England; 1909, Martha Rendell, Australia; 1927, Maria Vukitch, Serbia (Jugoslavia);  1929, Esther Szabo, Hungary; 1929, Juliane Lipka, Hungary; 1931, Marie Kardos, Hungary; 1931, Christine Chordas, Hungary; 1932, Daisy De Melker, South Africa; 1935, Julianne Nagy, Hungary; 1935, Milka Pavlovich, Yugoslavia; 1945, Irma Grese, Germany; 1961, Marie Fikáčková, Czechoslovakia; 2010, Mahin Qadiri, Iran; 2012, Sachiko Eto, Japan.

Lethal Injection – 1984, Velma Barfield, USA; 1997, Kimberly Lagayle McCarthy, USA.; 2000, Betty Lou Beets, USA; 2002, Aileen Wuornos, USA.

Lingche (“death by a thousand cuts”) 1924, "Old Mother" Djao, China.

Lynched – 1886, Eliza Wood – Tennessee; 1887, Kate & Kit Kelly (Kelly Family), USA.

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COMPLEX EXECUTIONS (Combination of methods):

1587 – Walpurga Hausmännin – Augsburg, Austria – Paraded through town and, in five stages, tortured, right hand cut off, then burned alive at the stake.
1676 – Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers Paris, France – tortured, beheaded, corpse burned at the stake.
1761 – Dorcas Kelly – Dublin, Ireland – burned, then still alive, hanged.
1772 – Luisa de Jesus – Coimbra (Lisbon), Portugal – carried through the streets of Lisbon, whipped, hanged and then publicly burnt.

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Executed FSK Crowd Sizes:

Dazley - A crowd variously estimated at 7,000 - 12,000 assembled in St. Loyes Street, outside Bedford Gaol.
Eliza Joyce – “Four to five thousand people came to watch the hanging at noon.”
Sarah Freeman – “He then drew the bolt and she died after a brief struggle in front of an estimated at 10,000 witnesses, including reporters.”
Grinder – 3500.
Runkle – private ex., “nearly 1,000 assembled in the streets.”

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