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

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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