Yang Kaihui was executed at Changsha on November 14, 1930, after arrest by forces associated with the Nationalist authorities in Hunan. Her final weeks were spent in detention during the violent struggle between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists. She was pressed to renounce her political commitments and her relationship with Mao Zedong, but the surviving accounts describe her refusal. These narratives emphasize steadfastness under threat and mistreatment, although the exact private exchanges in prison cannot all be independently verified. The secure distinction is that her death resulted from a political execution, not a natural terminal illness. She was about twenty-nine and the mother of three sons. Her arrest and death disrupted the children's lives and separated the household from the revolutionary work in which she had participated. Later commemorations, including Mao's poetry, gave her ending a prominent symbolic place, but they were written long after the execution and should not be read as eyewitness records of the last day. The available biography establishes the detention, pressure to recant and execution more clearly than it establishes the minute-by-minute events at the site. Exact final words or a detailed medical account of injuries would therefore exceed what can responsibly be stated.