Mary Ann Higgins was the 19-year-old niece of William Moore Higgins of Coventry and was described in contemporary newspaper reports as being “a rather good looking girl with fresh colour and a clear complexion, but not an intellectual countenance. When William’s brother died he in effect adopted Mary and intended to leave her his savings … Read more
Irma Ilse Ida Grese was an SS-Aufseherin (female guard supervisor) stationed at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Second World War. Following her arrest by British forces in April 1945, she was prosecuted at the landmark Belsen Trial in Lüneburg. Convicted of direct involvement in prisoner mistreatment, murder, and selection for the gas … Read more
The Severity of Arson in the 18th Century Arson was a crime which carried the death penalty at this time and for which reprieves were quite rare. Sixteen women were to die for this crime between 1735 and 1799, with a further five between 1800 and 1833, when Charlotte Long became the last, being hanged … Read more
Williamina “Minnie” McCulloch was born on the 2nd of September, 1844, at West Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland to Elizabeth and John McCulloch, the fourth in a family of eight girls. Elizabeth died of cancer when Minnie was only 11 years of age, however, her father managed to ensure she received a good education. She married young to a man named McCulloch … Read more
Nasra Yusuf Mohamed al-Enezi (also given as Nusra Anzi) became the first Kuwaiti woman ever to be hanged, when she went to the gallows within Central Prison on Wednesday the 25th of January 2017. The al-Enzi’s were a well to do couple. Nasra and her husband, 36 year old Zayed Zafiri, had two children, Shaqha, 5, and Muhammad, 3. Under Kuwaiti law a man is allowed … Read more
