Jane Champion was the first woman executed in America

And it wasn’t for witchcraft

As explored in the Dec. 6, 2019 story The baby in the suitcase, unplanned pregnancy and childbirth for single American women in the repressive 1950s was fraught with serious societal repercussions. However, 325 years earlier, in 1632 colonial Jamestown, an unplanned pregnancy could get a woman executed.