conviction_status death_date death_place conviction birth_place children image_size conviction_penalty image_caption parents birth_date article_title name occupation image_name
hanged on 29 april 1911 -lrb- sarah -rrb- on 15 august 1893 -lrb- john -rrb- paroled 13 september 1918 new south wales , australia murder & mdash ; march 1893 new south wales , australia 5 sons , 5 daughters 1 capital punishment john and sarah makin in the 1890s . william -rrb- emanuel and ellen murphy sutcliffe -lrb- sarah -rrb- samuel and ellen selena bolton makin -lrb- john 14 february 1845 john and sarah makin
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john and sarah makin

john makin -lrb- 14 february 1845 -- 15 august 1893 -rrb- and sarah jane makin -lrb- 20 december 1845 -- 13 september 1918 -rrb- were australian baby farmers who were convicted in new south wales -lrb- nsw -rrb- for the murder of infant horace murray .
both were tried and found guilty in march 1893 and were sentenced to death .
john was hanged on 15 august 1893 but sarah 's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment .
on 29 april 1911 , sarah was paroled from the state reformatory for women at long bay in response to the petition of her daughters .
