Ann Bilansky

Ann Bilansky
Born Mary Ann Evards Wright
1820
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Died March 23, 1860 (age 39/40)
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Occupation Housewife
Criminal penalty Death
Criminal status Executed by Hanging
Spouse(s) Stanislaus Bilansky
Conviction(s) Murder

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.[1]

References

  1. City Pages, March 22, 2000.

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