Minnie Dean

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Williamina Dean (née McCulloch; 2 September 1844 – 12 August 1895) was a New Zealander who was found guilty of infanticide and hanged. She was the first and only woman to have been executed in New Zealand. Several other women have been sentenced to death in New Zealand, but all of them had their sentences commuted to either life imprisonment or a long imprisonment.

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