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Part of the plot point in the movie musical version of Chicago (at the very least) was that only one woman incarcerated in the Cook County Jail was ever executed for murder during its time point (mid-1920s according to Wikipedia). Was this actually true?

by /u/cordis_melum in /r/AskHistorians

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