THE LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES
THE LAST PUBLIC EXECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES On August 14, 1936, a young Negro Rainey Bethea was publicly hanged on the Ohio River embankment in Owensboro, Kentucky. This event was the last public execution in the United States. It is known that Rainey was born in Virginia, left an orphan early. In 1933, he […]