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Rainey Bethea (c. 1909 – August 14, 1936), was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky .
11. Aug. 2018 · August 14, 1936 — A crowd variously estimated at 10,000 to 20,000 gathered at Owensboro, Kentucky on this day to watch the last ever public hanging in the United States.
Many scholars maintain that the unprecedented nationwide attention and coverage the execution received caused the United States to outlaw public executions. Therefore, Bethea was the last individual to be hanged publicly in the United States.
14. Aug. 2014 · An estimated 15,000–20,000 people showed up for what would be the last public execution in the United States. Around 5:20 a.m., August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was led to the gallows in...
- Mark Murrmann
6. Mai 2001 · In August 1936, some 20,000 people descended on Owensboro, Ky., to witness what would be the last state-sanctioned public execution in America. Kentucky was the only state still conducting...
10. Mai 2023 · The last public execution in the United States was a raucous and tawdry affair. By the time 20,000 people poured into Owensboro, Kentucky, for the 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea, a Black man...
Hurt Hardy Jr. (died February 26, 1937) was one of the last people to be executed by hanging in Missouri. While his execution is often cited as "the last public execution in the United States," that distinction actually went to Rainey Bethea, who was hanged in Kentucky on August 14, 1936.
