Comments on: 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/1936-rainey-bethea-last-public-hanging/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s Second Annual Report: Once Bitten, Twice Die http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/1936-rainey-bethea-last-public-hanging/#comment-11968 ExecutedToday.com » Executed Today’s Second Annual Report: Once Bitten, Twice Die Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:44:00 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=356#comment-11968 [...] 4. August 14, 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging [...] [...] 4. August 14, 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1946: Not Willie Francis, who survived the electric chair http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/1936-rainey-bethea-last-public-hanging/#comment-4241 ExecutedToday.com » 1946: Not Willie Francis, who survived the electric chair Sun, 03 May 2009 05:30:43 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=356#comment-4241 [...] was the twenty-third person to take the deadly current, but the first to survive an electrocution. By the 1940s, executions were private affairs. They took place behind the walls of prison complexes, and the [...] [...] was the twenty-third person to take the deadly current, but the first to survive an electrocution. By the 1940s, executions were private affairs. They took place behind the walls of prison complexes, and the [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: At the End of the Rope http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/1936-rainey-bethea-last-public-hanging/#comment-1666 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: At the End of the Rope Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:47:14 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=356#comment-1666 [...] 1964: Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, England’s last hangings 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging [...] [...] 1964: Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen, England’s last hangings 1936: Rainey Bethea, America’s last public hanging [...]

]]> By: Kris http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/08/14/1936-rainey-bethea-last-public-hanging/#comment-1400 Kris Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:57:54 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=356#comment-1400 I've been reading for a while, and realised that I haven't commented. I apologise for that, because I have enjoyed your work, and would like to thank you for your effort. I particularly like how you avoid the easy, sensationalist macabre approach for something more sombre and cerebral, supported by generous hyperlinks. I am learning a lot of new history (to me), and for example wouldn't have thought that public hangings took place as late as 1936 in the US. So, once again, thanks for the effort. I’ve been reading for a while, and realised that I haven’t commented. I apologise for that, because I have enjoyed your work, and would like to thank you for your effort. I particularly like how you avoid the easy, sensationalist macabre approach for something more sombre and cerebral, supported by generous hyperlinks. I am learning a lot of new history (to me), and for example wouldn’t have thought that public hangings took place as late as 1936 in the US.

So, once again, thanks for the effort.

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