Editing Florence, Arizona (section)

===Second Pinal County Courthouse===
The second Pinal County Courthouse was built in 1891. It was the site where the trials of three notorious women were presented. They were [[Pearl Heart]], [[Eva Dugan]] and [[Winnie Ruth Judd]], known as the "Trunk Murderess". [[Pearl Hart]] (birth surname: Taylor) was an [[outlaw]] of the [[American Old West]]. She committed one of the last recorded [[stagecoach]] [[robbery|robberies]] in the United States; her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. She was tried in 1899 and was acquitted, however the judge ordered a second trial and she was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 17, 1899 |title=Pearl Hart Acquitted |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01E1DB1530E132A25754C1A9679D94689ED7CF |work=New York Times |page=9}}</ref>

In the 1930s [[Eva Dugan]] was convicted of murder. She was sentenced to be executed by [[hanging]]. However, it resulted in her [[decapitation]] and influenced the State of Arizona to replace hanging with the gas chamber as a method of [[execution]].<ref>[http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/02/21/1930-eva-dugan-her-head-jerked-clean-off/ 1930: Eva Dugan, her head jerked clean off, Executed Today]</ref>

[[Winnie Ruth Judd]] was a Phoenix medical secretary who was found guilty of murdering and dismembering her friends Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson over the alleged affections of her lover Jack Halloran. The jury found her guilty of first-degree murder on February 8, 1932. An appeal was unsuccessful. Her trial was marked by sensationalized newspaper coverage and suspicious circumstances. Judd was sentenced to be hanged February 17, 1933, and sent to the Arizona State Prison in Florence. The sentence she received raised debate about capital punishment.<ref name="NYT_1998-10-27">{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=October 27, 1998 |title=Winnie R. Judd, 93, Infamous As 1930's 'Trunk Murderess' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/27/us/winnie-r-judd-93-infamous-as-1930-s-trunk-murderess.html |access-date=January 12, 2010 |work=The New York Times |quote=Winnie Ruth Judd, who spent three decades in an Arizona state mental hospital as the notorious ''trunk murderess'' in one of the most sensational criminal cases of 1930s, died in Phoenix on Friday. She was 93.}}</ref> Her death sentence was overturned after a ten-day hearing found her mentally incompetent; she was then sent to Arizona State Asylum for the Insane on April 24, 1933.<ref>Arizona State Hospital History http://www.azdhs.gov/azsh/history.htm</ref>