Elizabeth Martha Brown (c. 1811–9 August 1856), née Clark, was the last woman to be hanged in public in Dorset, England. She was executed outside Dorchester Prison after being convicted of the murder of her second husband, John Brown, on 22 July, just 13 days earlier. The prosecution said she had attacked him with an axe after he had taken a whip to her.
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1811
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9 August 1856 (aged 45)
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