Virginia Christian
American murderer
Died when: 17 years 1 days (204 months)Star Sign: Leo
Virginia Christian (August 15, 1895 – August 16, 1912) was the first female criminal executed in the 20th century in the state of Virginia, and a juvenile offender executed in the United States.
She was also the only female juvenile executed by electric chair and, to date, the last female criminal executed in the electric chair by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
She was the last female criminal executed by the Commonwealth until Thursday, September 23, 2010, when Teresa Lewis became the first female criminal in nearly a century to be executed in the US state of Virginia.
Christian, a black maid, was convicted of the murder of her employer Ida Belote, a 72-year-old white woman, in her home at Hampton on March 18, 1912.
Shortly after she was arrested, it is said she confessed that she hit Belote, but that she had never intended to kill her.
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