In the summer of 1936, Rainey Bethea was put to death in Owensboro. His hanging on the banks of the Ohio River drew tens of thousands to the western Kentucky city and created a media circus that made ...
The last public execution in the United States happened less than a century ago in Kentucky. Rainey Bethea, a Black man accused of raping a white woman, was hanged in 1936. Now his death is at the ...
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