The last U.S state-sanctioned public execution occurred more than 90 years ago in Kentucky. Some 20,000 people gathered to witness the Aug 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea, a young Black man who had been convicted of raping an elderly white woman. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.