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Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. Thi
The Last Public Execution in America
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Pages: 203
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On August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, before a crowd of 20,000. The public outrage which followed resulted in the complete abolit
Hiding the Guillotine
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Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move exe
A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the
Seeing Justice Done
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A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execut