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Mary Surratt was arrested in 1865 for conspiring with actor John Wilkes Booth, her own son, and other confederate sympathizers in the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. She was the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government, in spite of a petition to President Andrew Johnson. Mary defied 19th century norms of females, and was hung as only men were then. Based on confessions, court testimony and interviews.
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