Rainey Bethea
Deceased Person
1909 – 1936
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Who was Rainey Bethea?
Rainey Bethea was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who was a black man, confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old white woman named Lischia Edwards, and after being convicted of her rape, he was publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. Mistakes in performing the hanging and the surrounding media circus contributed to the end of public executions in the United States.
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- Born
- Oct 16, 1909
Roanoke - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Virginia
- Died
- Aug 14, 1936
Owensboro
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on July 23, 2013
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