Ellen Thompson
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The only woman to be hanged was Ellen Thompson on 13 June 1887; she was hanged alongside her lover, John Harrison, for murdering her husband William.
In 1922, Queensland became the first part of the British Commonwealth to abolish the death penalty.
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