<P> The last to have been condemned to death for `` petty treason '' was Mary Bailey , whose body was burned in 1784 . The last woman to be convicted for `` high treason '' , and have her body burnt , in this case for the crime of coin forgery , was Catherine Murphy in 1789 . The last case where a woman was actually burnt alive in England is that of Catherine Hayes in 1726 , for the murder of her husband . In this case , one account says this happened because the executioner accidentally set fire to the pyre before he had hanged Hayes properly . The historian Rictor Norton has assembled a number of contemporary newspaper reports on the actual death of Mrs. Hayes , internally somewhat divergent . The following excerpt is one example : </P>
<P> The last to have been condemned to death for `` petty treason '' was Mary Bailey , whose body was burned in 1784 . The last woman to be convicted for `` high treason '' , and have her body burnt , in this case for the crime of coin forgery , was Catherine Murphy in 1789 . The last case where a woman was actually burnt alive in England is that of Catherine Hayes in 1726 , for the murder of her husband . In this case , one account says this happened because the executioner accidentally set fire to the pyre before he had hanged Hayes properly . The historian Rictor Norton has assembled a number of contemporary newspaper reports on the actual death of Mrs. Hayes , internally somewhat divergent . The following excerpt is one example : </P>
when was the last burning at the stake in england
when was the last burning at the stake in england
1789
1789