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She was the daughter of the Faschauner family of Alpine farmers from Maltaberg in the Duchy of Carinthia.
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Eva Faschaunerin
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An autopsy revealed that his death was caused by arsenic poisoning. Tried for murder and sorcery before the Gmünd county court, Eva pleaded guilty after about three years of torture. Condemned as a murderer and sentenced to death by decapitation on 20 March 1773, her clemency petition was denied by the superior court in Vienna and she was beheaded.
She was also the last person to be sent to the gallows from Gmünd.
