Minnie Dean: Difference between revisions

In her trial, Dean's lawyer Alfred Hanlon argued that all deaths were accidental, and that they had been covered up to prevent adverse publicity of the sort that Dean had previously been subjected to. On 21 June 1895, however, Dean was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. On 12 August, she was hanged by the official executioner [[Tom Long (hangman)|Tom Long]] in [[Invercargill]], at the intersection of Spey and Leven streetstreets, in what is now the Noel Leeming carpark. She is the only woman to have been executed in New Zealand, and as [[capital punishment in New Zealand]] has been abolished, it is likely that she will retain that distinction. She is buried in Winton, alongside her husband.