Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago – why are they resuming now?
On 14 August 1936, about 20,000 people gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky, to watch the public hanging of Rainey Bethea, a black man convicted of raping and killing a 70‑year‑old widow. The event prompted Kentucky to ban public executions 18 months later, and it remained the last high‑profile public hanging in the United States.
Source: Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago – why are they resuming now? — BBC World
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