Who Was The Last Person To Be Hanged?
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. Rainey Bethea Conviction(s) Rape Criminal penalty Death by hanging When was the last man …