08-14-2018, 09:14 AM
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August 14, 1936. A large crowd watches as attendants adjust a black hood over Rainey Bethea's head just before his public hanging in Owensboro, Kentucky. Bethea, who was convicted of raping a 70-year-old woman, was the last person killed in a public execution in the United States.
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