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This is super interesting ---- and indeed really quite important. I am curious about how she was carried, was this common practice, did other women who were executed made similar pleas and were these also rejected? I love these case studies -- and it often makes me wonder if they are trends or exceptions. This case is clearly extarordinary given the role that scietnific evidence played .

There also seem to be some interesting assumptions --- a request to burn correspondence, need not imply conspiring to commit murder. Instead the letters could be lewd and perhaps they worried such spicy content would sow doubt re their character. From your article, my sense is that they did conspire... but I like to think why else would they have made such change --- what else could explain what they did.

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