00:02The tragic story of Elizabeth Woolcock brought to life on stage.
00:06Yet today I get sentenced to death for something that I did not do!
00:11Set in the old Adelaide jail, the performance recounts how the 25-year-old was executed,
00:18found guilty of poisoning her abusive husband with mercury.
00:21I really want the audience to at the end of this play think did she or didn't she and not
00:30judge either decision.
00:32And it's not fair, it's not right, it's not comfortable.
00:35But being able to tell stories that aren't comfortable are what leads us to the truth.
00:39It was here in 1873 where Elizabeth Woolcock was hung,
00:44but the events which led to her conviction have long been challenged.
00:47It took a jury less than 30 minutes to reach their decision,
00:51but researchers and legal experts say she was sent to the gallows, an innocent woman.
00:57For Lisa Peters, seeking justice for Elizabeth has become her life's work.
01:02I don't think she'll leave us alone until something happens.
01:06She's launched a third and final petition for a posthumous pardon,
01:10arguing the case was led by an inexperienced lawyer and based on inconclusive medical evidence.
01:16At the time she wasn't even allowed to speak for herself.
01:20She was in front of an all-male jury.
01:23It was very misogynistic times.
01:26The case, once you look at it carefully and methodically,
01:29seems to rely on a lot of stereotype, rumours,
01:33and the evidence just doesn't cut it.
01:35A hope for delayed justice long denied.
01:41My name.
01:44You
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