Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Booth Girl

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed in the United States 146 years ago after a military tribunal refused to let her testify in her own defense on charges she was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assasination because she ran the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators ...