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Resurrection Lady Name: Margaret Dickson A.K.A. : "Half Hangit Maggie" Popularly known for: Execution Survivor Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Infanticide Number of victims: 1 Date of murder: 1724 Date of birth: 1702 Victim profile: Her newborn baby Method of murder: Unknown Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Status: Executed by hanging at Edinburgh on September 2, 1724. Survived and she was given a full pardon In an age when women are expected to know their place, be submissive, dutiful and chaste, Maggie Dickson, a Musselburgh fishwife, is often in trouble. She’s outspoken, promiscuous and vituperative. While her husband’s at sea she sells her fish, sleeps with men for pleasure or money, and looks after her two bairns’. In time, her husband abandons her. Maggie quits Musselburgh and heads for Newcastle to stay with relatives. During the winter of 1723, a fisherman finds the dead body of a naked, baby boy. Fingers are soon pointing in the directio...

Young American to be sentenced for Capital Punishment NAME: George Junius Stinney Jr.  BORN: 21st October 1929 MOTHER- Aime Stinney FATHER- George Stinny Sr.  SIBLING- Katherine Stinney City: Pinewood, South Carolina COUNTRY:- TheUnited States Of America DEATH: June 16, 1944 (Age 14) CAUSE OF DEATH: Execution by Electric chair REASON FOR EXECUTION: 1st Degree Murder (Later Overturned) DATE APPREHENDED- March 1944 BURIED- Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Canada   George Stinney Jr. was a young American boy who was convicted of murdering two white girls aged 7 and 11 in the hometown of Alcolu, South carolina. He was executed by the electric chair in June 1944.  It was in 2004, a re- examination on his case proved that his conviction was flawed and it was overturned in 2004. 70 years after he was executed, individuals of Northeastern University School of Law sought out his case as a judicial review. They confirmed that Stinney didn’t receive a fair trial.  Incident...