Eva Dugan


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Eva Dugan (b. 1878 - d. 1930) gained notoriety nationwide as the only woman executed in Arizona and the last person executed in Arizona by hanging.

Eva was born in Missouri in 1878. Her father was W.M. McDaniel (birthplace unknown), and her mother was unknown.

She had been married five times and had two children. All of her husbands turned up missing under mysterious circumstances.

Eva was arrested and convicted of the car theft and murder of a chicken rancher named Andrew J. Mathis of Tucson, Arizona. She had worked briefly for him as his housekeeper. She was executed by hanging at the Arizona State Prison in Florence on February 21, 1930. The hanging decapitated her ending death by execution in Arizona by hanging. Following this incident, executions were conducted in the gas chamber in Arizona.

Burial location is unknown.

Sources: findagrave.com; Arizona Deaths 1870-1951; Heraldsburg Tribune February 21, 1930; Daily Illinois February 22, 1930.

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