Nora Parham’s Story Returns to the Stage Decades After Execution

More than six decades after her execution, the story of Nora Parham is once again taking centre stage, but this time, through the lens of theatre, known as the only woman in Belizean History to be sent to the gallows, she was posthumously pardoned after new evidence suggested the fatal fire may have been accidental and that she had long been a victim of domestic abuse.  

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