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The State of Mid-W Ivory
Timothy Ruggles was the first woman officially in the new United States to be hanged. Historians are reexamining her case and looking at people who signed the death warrant. They're saying that 14 experts were lying when they said she wasn't five months pregnant. The politics that play in here, the loyalists versus the patriots, someone trying to get away with a crime, they end up executing a woman.
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