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Owensboro, Kentucky held the last spectacle of a public execution by hanging 75 years ago on 14 August 1936. The memory haunts the town and people who still live there and remember that day.
The negative publicity of 18 year old Rainey Bethea's hanging inspired Kentucky legislators to end public executions. Compounding the issue, executions in the electric chair had replaced the "ghoulish" gallows and were privately conducted to avoid inviting the worst in human behaviour through the arbitrary observation of botched or painful executions.
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