10 Mind-Blowing Historical Facts You Never Knew

5. A Woman Survived Her Own Death Sentence

In 1724, a Scottish woman named Maggie Dickson was sentenced to death for killing her newborn child.
She was hanged in public.
But when her body was taken for burial — she was found alive!
The court ruled she could not be executed again, because she had already “died once.”
She lived another 40 years and became known as:
“Half-Hangit Maggie.”