Austria.
The
last woman sentenced to death by an ordinary court was Juliane Hummel.
She was pole hanged for the murder of her five year old daughter, Anna,
on the 2nd of January 1900 at Vienna. There were about 100 women
executed by German executioners in Vienna and Graz between 1938 and
1945, but it is not known who the last one was. It is thought that the
last woman to die for murder after a normal jury trial was Martha
Lowenstein Marek. She was guillotined by the Bavarian State executioner,
Johann Reichhart, in Vienna on the 6th of December 1938, for the
poisoning of her husband, their baby daughter, an elderly relative,
whose money and house she inherited, and finally a lodger in her house.
No further female executions were carried out after 1945, although
several women were sentenced to death.
Belgium.
The last
women executed in Belgium was 45 year old Florentine Giralt, who had
been sentenced to death by a military tribunal for denouncing Belgian
agents to the Nazis during World War II. She was executed by firing
squad in Brussels on the 4th of June 1949, together with six men. Click
here for photo.
The last woman sentenced to death by an ordinary
court was Euphrasie-Félicie Deroux, for the murder of her child at the
Cour d'assises of the province of Hainaut. She was guillotined at Mons
on the 22nd of June 1846.
Bulgaria.
Elina Zlatanova was
executed by a single shot to the head on March 8th 1988 in the town
cemetery of Sliven in Southeast Bulgaria. She had been convicted of the
murders of her two sons, Elin and Neven. She had doused her apartment
with fuel and set it on fire. Infant Elin was asphyxiated in his crib,
while Nevin tried to escape so Elina Elina stabbed him with a kitchen
knife. Her intention, apparently, was to also perish in the fire, but
when the flames got too close, she got out of the blazing apartment.
Her motive appears to be to get back at her husband for his perceived
maltreatment of her.
Czechoslovakia.
Olga Hepnarova, aged
23, was hanged on March 12th, 1975 in Prague’s Pankrác prison for
murdering eight complete strangers at a tram stop by running them over
with a truck in 1973 as an act of revenge against the world. The short
drop gallows on which she suffered is preserved in Pankrác prison. Click
here for photo.
Denmark.
The last official execution was
conducted in Copenhagen on ”Rødovre Mark” when Ane Cathrine Andersdatter
was beheaded by axe on the 21st of December 1861. She had been
sentenced to death for the murder of three of her five children.
England.
Ruth
Ellis was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at Holloway prison in North
London on Wednesday, the 13th of July, 1955 for the murder of her
boyfriend David Blakely, who had refused to see her over the Easter of
1955. She lay in wait for him outside the Magdala pub and when he came
out, shot him five times with a revolver. She was arrested immediately
by an off-duty policeman. Her execution caused a great deal of public
controversy at the time.
Finland.
Martta Koskinen, was executed by firing squad on an unspecified date in 1943 for espionage and high treason.
Probably
the last woman executed after conviction by a civil court was Lena
Greta Nystedt, sentenced to death for murder and beheaded by axe at
Helsinki on the 20th of April 1819. She was definitely the last person
executed at Helsinki.
France.
On the 22nd of April 1949
Germaine Leloy-Godefroy (age 31) became the last woman executed in
France, when she was guillotined at Angers for murdering her husband,
Albert Leloy, with an axe while he slept at Baugé on December the 10th
1947. Click here for photo.
Germany.
The very last woman was
executed in the eastern part of Germany, (the Communist German
Democratic Republic) was 43 year old Helene “Elli” Barczatis, who had
been sentenced to death for espionage by the First Criminal Senate of
the Supreme Court. She was guillotined in Dresden on the 23rd of
November 1955, as was her co-defendant Karl Laurenz. Click here for
photo.
The last two women executed in western controlled sectors,
before they became Federal Republic of Germany, were Ida Bertha
Schreiber and Emma Anna Zimmer. They had been sentenced to death by a
British Military Court for Crimes against the Humanity (committed when
they were guards at KZ Ravensbrück) and hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at
Hameln on the 20th of September 1948. No other women were executed as
result of the other Ravensbrück trials although others received death
sentences which were later commuted to prison terms. (see also Female
Nazi war criminals)
The last woman executed after being sentenced
to death by an ordinary court was Else Ferrazza, condemned for the
murder of her husband by the Strafkammer (criminal court) at the
Landgericht (superior court) of Essen and guillotined
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