Margaret Lashley
Margaret Lashley was hanged in Danville, Virginia, on January 22, 1892, alongside Jim Lyles, in an execution that was carried out privately. According to the Richmond Dispatch, she protested her innocence until the end, and those who saw her believed she was telling the truth. Her counsel, Z. P. Smith, had a private interview with her before the execution, and the paper described her as calm and said she ate a hearty breakfast that morning. A later Grenada Sentinel account reported that the two were led to the scaffold at 11 o'clock after a prayer led by a colored preacher, and the drop fell at 11:33.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. She protested her innocence to the end, according to the account of those who saw her hanged.
Reported by: news reports.