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#8 Police officers taking Bethea to the gallows.

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Police officers taking Bethea to the gallows.

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

#8 Police officers taking Bethea to the gallows.

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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.
#9 Vendors do a brisk business as a crowd gathers before dawn—the hour of execution for convicted rapist Rainey Bethea.→

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