Mary Dyer was a follower of mid-wife and religious activist Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Her views about God and religion were considered heresy by the Puritan religion

In 1658, a law was passed banishing Quakers under “pain of death.” Mary Dyer was executed, hanged for being a Quaker on June 1, 1660. She never repented and held on to her religious beliefs all the way to the scaffold.

The following is from a document from the New York Public Library with evidence about the Quaker Martyr and the terrible torture that was inflicted at the time and the famous execution of Mary

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one particular Blow could not be seen.”He was also starved for five days, and for sixteen hours was put into irons, neck and heels, so that it was thought he would die all of which so excited the populace that the authorities promised that the jailer should be punished,but no further notice was taken of it. Christopher Holder of Rhode Island was barbarously whipped, was then kept for three days without food or water, and without bed or straw, and for nine weeks was imprisoned without fire in the cold winter season. Afterwards he was apprehended again, was again cruelly whipped, his right ear was cut off, and other barbarities were at different times practised upon him.

Defenceless women, maidens and matrons, were stripped naked to the waist, and, thus exposed to the public gaze,