Ann Bilansky [SEP] place of birth
Ann Bilansky
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 in Minnesota to receive the death penalty and the first white person in the state to be executed by hanging.
Biography.
Mary Ann Evards Wright (known by her middle name, Ann) was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she resided for several years with her first husband who later died in
the story, stating that it hoped to never have to report about Bilansky or the execution ever again.
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.
Further reading.
- Cairns, Kathleen (2013). "Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America". Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Jones, Ann