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#7 A huge crowd of people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea.

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A huge crowd of people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea.

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

#7 A huge crowd of people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea.

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←#6 A group of people join the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea.
#8 Police officers taking Bethea to the gallows.→

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