who was the last woman to be hanged in ireland
Capital punishment in Ireland The only woman executed after independence was Annie Walsh in 1925. She and her nephew blamed each other for the murder of her elderly husband. The press expected only the nephew to be found guilty, but both were. She was hanged aged 31 in spite of the jury recommending clemency.[16][24]
Guillotine The guillotine remained Franceâ€™s standard method of judicial execution until as recently as the abolition of capital punishment in 1981.[3] The last person to be executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi, who was guillotined on 10 September 1977.