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First woman to be hanged
February 23 , 2021
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- For the first in the history of independent India, a woman, convicted for killing seven members of her family.
- She was tried and awarded death by all the courts.
- She will be hanged at Mathura jail.
- Mathura jail is the only one India which has the provisions for hanging a woman convict.
- The first female hanging house was built in Mathura jail almost 150 years ago.
- But no woman has been executed there since Independence.
- A woman from Lucknow called Ramshri was sentenced to death earlier on April 6, 1998.
- But her death sentence was commuted into life imprisonment.
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