TIMLENNOX.COM: 200th Anniversary of 1st Hanging-Execution of a Woman in Alabama---an Enslaved Woman.

Patsy, a slave owned by Gorman, was the first female hanged on June 10, 1825 for murder committed in Perry County....the murder of a boy named Prior who's throat was cut.

Gorman was awarded $132.50 of Patsy's "valuation" of $265 to compensate him for the loss of Patsy via execution.

Slave executions before the Civil War, included a trio executed on January 19, 1860 for a "slave revolt" in Talledega. Ceasar, Sam and Sanford were executed/hanged on 1-9-1860..in all, some 184 enslaved people were hanged in Alabama between 1812 and 1860.

A white soldier named John Woods was shot to death on 2-6-1814 after he was convicted of a crime listed only as "other".

https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/state/alabama.htm

There are FIVE women on Alabama' Death Row (as of 6-07-25)

An earlier version of this posting includes some added information:

The first woman executed in Alabama was an enslaved woman:

"Patsy, a slave owned by Gorman, was the first female in Alabama hanged on June 10, 1825 for murder committed in Perry County."

Virtually all of the women executed in early Alabama history were enslaved.

Patsy, who cut the throat of a Negro boy named Prior in Perry County in April 1825, got the maximum sentence. She was tried—and found guilty. Her value was assessed at $265 and she was sentenced to be hanged. Half her "value" ($132.50) was paid to her owner Elijah Gorman upon her death.