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#2 Local sheriff Florence Thompson was charged with seeing the public execution through.

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Local sheriff Florence Thompson was charged with seeing the public execution through.

Rainey Bethea: Story and Photos of the Last Person in the United States Who Was Executed Publicly in Kentucky on August 14, 1936

#2 Local sheriff Florence Thompson was charged with seeing the public execution through.

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←#1 Rainey Bethea at the Kentucy Jail. July 29, 1936.
#3 Rainey Bethea with Sheriff’s Deputies Albert Riesz and Lawrence Dishman as they leave the Jefferson County jail in Louisville, Kentucky for his execution in Owensboro, Kentucky.→

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