Roxalana "Roxana" Druse (née Teftt; born c.– hanged February 28, 1887), was the last woman hanged in the state of New York. The first woman to be hanged in four decades in Central New York, her botched execution resulted in the decision to replace the gallows with the electric chair in 1890.
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1847 unknown
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28 February 1887 (aged 39) Herkimer County, New York, U.S.
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