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Mary Surratt was convicted as a co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal government, hanged on July 7, 1865. Surratt owned a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators planned the assassination, and her trial was highly controversial, raising questions about the fairness of military tribunals. Her execution has since been viewed by some historians as a miscarriage of justice.

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