Lavinia Burnett was the first woman executed by the state of
Arkansas in 1845. She was accused and convicted of the murder of a neighbor who
was known to have large sums of cash in his home. Like most women on death row
ever since, Lavina did not murder Johnathon Sibley. Her son John and her nephew
were the killers but Lavinia and her husband Crawford knew about and went to
participate.
Lavinia’s daughter told authorities of the plan the rest of
her family was involved in. Her mother and father were arrested immediately but
brother John stayed on the lamb for a while. Lavinia and John were hung from
the gallows where the National Cemetery is now in Fayetteville, Arkansas. John
was soon caught and followed his parents to the gallows.
Lavinia, in 1845, was the only woman Arkansas killed until 2000
when they executed Christina Riggs.
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