HMPS: A Poisoned Life

Florence Maybrick, born in Mobile, Alabama, was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England - for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her widowed mother, who had married the scion of one of Mobile’s leading families, was vilified and made an easy target when her daughter was arrested and tried for murder. She worked tirelessly and spent her substantial fortune in an effort to have her daughter released. Both Florence and her mother would die in po