The last public execution in the United States happened less than a century ago in Kentucky. Rainey Bethea, a Black man accused of raping a white woman, was hanged in 1936. Now his death is at the ...
A new book examines the racist background of the last public hanging in the U.S., when tens of thousands of people came to watch in a small Kentucky town.
The U.S. code does not say that “public hanging” is a punishment for treason, contrary to a video shared online that claims offenders will be taken to the “nearest busy intersection” and executed by ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results