25/03/2026
Lizzie Halliday was born in Ireland in 1859, but her family moved to the USA when she was young.
As an adult, she lived in New York. She was a troublemaker and spent time in prisons and asylums.
Her first two husbands died after short marriages, and she tried to kill her third husband with arsenic. Later, she burned down her shop to collect insurance.
Her crimes escalated in 1891 when she burned down a home and killed her husband's mentally disabled son. When her husband Paul went missing, she was the prime suspect, and while searching, authorities not only found Paul but also found two women who had been shot.
In 1894, she was convicted of murder and became the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair. Her sentence was commuted to life in a mental institution. She killed a nurse in 1906.
She died in 1918.