Anna Månsdotter: The Last Woman Executed in Sweden

On the morning of August 7, 1890, a 48 year old woman named Anna Månsdotter was led into the courtyard of Kristianstad district jail in southern Sweden and beheaded with an axe. It wasn't the crime itself that made her famous, plenty of people had killed before her. It was everything that came out during the trial. Swedish papers dubbed her Yngsjömörderskan, the Yngsjö Murderess, and the name stuck. Anna Månsdotter remains the last woman ever executed in Sweden, and the case is still one of...