At the Pinal County Museum in Florence, Arizona are 25 nooses on display from hangings at the prison. They were used to hang 25 men and one woman. One noose was used four times because four men were hung on the same day. Eva Dugan, the only woman in Arizona to die on the scaffold, was hanged February 21st, 1930. While perusing a museum in Claremore, OK in 2008, oddly enough, I also saw another noose claiming to be the one used to hang Eva. Eva was a twenty-year-old prostitute in the Yukon


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