 CHAR: Mama assures Roxie that a woman has not "swung" in Cook County  in years. Later at the jail yard, Mary Sunshine reports that Katalin  is to be the first woman ever executed by Illinois. In actuality,  Illinois has executed 4 women, the first in 1845. By the time the  story takes place, the electric chair had replaced hanging as its  method of execution. Moreover, Cook County has never executed a  woman.