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Rainey Bethea (c. 1909 [b] – August 14, 1936), was the last person publicly executed in the United States. [1] Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky .
Florence Katherine Shoemaker Thompson Riney (October 30, 1892 – April 13, 1961) was the first female sheriff in the United States of America to carry out an execution. Rainey Bethea, the last man to be publicly executed in the U.S., was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by hanging in Daviess County, Kentucky.
William W. Kirtley (December 10, 1897 – September 23, 1944) was an American anti-death penalty activist and lead defense attorney to Rainey Bethea, the last man ever publicly executed in the United States. [1]
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
Perry T. Ryan (born November 26, 1962) is an American lawyer who writes books on American history. Ryan has authored eight books. [1] These include The Last Public Execution in America (1992), the story of Rainey Bethea, who was legally hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936.
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A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily ... An estimated 20,000 watched Rainey Bethea hang in 1936, ...