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American murderer
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Female
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Birth:
1820(North Carolina)
Death:
23 March 1860(Saint Paul)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Ann Bilansky (born Mary Ann Evards Wright) (c. 1820 – March 23, 1860) was an American housewife convicted in 1859 of poisoning her husband with arsenic. She is the only woman to receive the death penalty and the first white person executed in Minnesota. She was executed by hanging.
In popular culture
Ann Bilansky's trial and execution was the basis for Jeffrey Hatcher's stage play, A Piece of Rope, which premiered in St. Paul in March 2000.