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Roxalana Roxana Druse (née Teftt; born ca. 1847 – hanged February 28 1887) was the last woman hanged in the state of New York. The first woman to be hanged in four decades in Central New York her botched execution resulted in the decision to replace the gallows with the electric chair in 1890.Mrs. Druse murder her husband William Druse in their home in Warren New York. The murder unfolded with the help of her son and daughter George and Mary Druse and nephew Frank Gates.