About: Dorothy Talbye trial

An Entity of Type: building, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Dorothy Talbye Trial (d. 1638) is an early American example of execution of an insane woman for murder, at a time when the insane were treated no differently from ordinary criminals. Talbye was hanged in 1639 for killing her three-year-old daughter. She claimed that God told her to do so.Although Puritan Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony considered Talbye to be possessed by Satan, the penalty for murder was necessarily death.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Dorothy Talbye Trial (d. 1638) is an early American example of execution of an insane woman for murder, at a time when the insane were treated no differently from ordinary criminals. Talbye was hanged in 1639 for killing her three-year-old daughter. She claimed that God told her to do so.Although Puritan Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony considered Talbye to be possessed by Satan, the penalty for murder was necessarily death. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 14266760 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 6208 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1105541170 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Dorothy Talbye Trial (d. 1638) is an early American example of execution of an insane woman for murder, at a time when the insane were treated no differently from ordinary criminals. Talbye was hanged in 1639 for killing her three-year-old daughter. She claimed that God told her to do so.Although Puritan Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony considered Talbye to be possessed by Satan, the penalty for murder was necessarily death. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Dorothy Talbye trial (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License