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#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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Vendors do a brisk business as a crowd gathers before dawn—the hour of execution for convicted rapist 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

#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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