On August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky,
before a crowd of 20,000. The public outrage which followed resulted
in the complete abolition of public executions in the United States.
This site provides the complete text of the book, The Last Public
Execution in America.
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