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Eva Dugan (1878 – February 21, 1930) was a convicted murderer whose execution by hanging at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, resulted in her decapitation and influenced the state of Arizona to replace hanging with the lethal gas chamber as a method of execution.
Twenty-year-old Eva Dugan took the alias Claw-Finger Kitty while she was working as a prostitute during the Alaska Gold Rush and some thirty years later she would become famous as the only woman Arizona history to be legally hanged.
[STATE PRISON, Florence, Ariz., Feb. 21, 1930, Associated Press] —Mrs. Eva Dugan, the first woman to be legally executed in Arizona, paid with her life on the gallows shortly before dawn today for the slaying in 1927 of A. P. Mathis, Tucson rancher.
On February 21, 1930, Eva Dugan was the first – and last – woman to be legally hanged in the state of Arizona. Three years after the horror of Eva’s botched execution, Arizona switched from the rope to the gas chamber.
Eva Dugan was the first woman to be executed in Arizona and the last to be hanged. As a result of what happened to her, Arizona switched from executing people by hanging to using the gas chamber.
Twenty-year-old Eva Dugan took the alias Claw-Finger Kitty while she was working as a prostitute during the Alaska Gold Rush and some thirty years later she became the only woman Arizona history to be legally hanged.
Convicted murderer Eva Dugan was the last inmate executed by hanging in Arizona after she was decapitated by accident.