Roxana Flowers

Roxana Flowers

Roxana Flowers (1847 – February 28, 1887), aka Roxalana Flowers, was the last woman hanged in the state of New York before the electric chair replaced the gallows in 1890. She and her daughter Isabella beat Roxana's 72-year-old husband Dustin Flowers to death, then chopped up and boiled his remains. Her alleged motive was that her husband worked her too hard.

ee also

* List of individuals executed in New York
* Capital punishment in the United States

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/femhang.html Female Hangings 1632 to 1900]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyherkim/herktown/gillette.html Two Famous Murder Trials]


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