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August 14, 1936) was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Time to bring it back.

August 14, 1936) was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. Time to bring it back.

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When they talk about lynchings, as usual, the communists leave out:

1) Most of the blacks lynched were criminals.

2) Whites were lynched extensively for the same reason as blacks: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

3) The reason for lynchings was not hate. It was because court houses and police departments barely existed if they even had any regionally in those days. Local communities had to take the law into their own hands.

Were innocent people lynched? Of course, on both sides. Humans are vicious chimpanzees not known for the eve hand of justice. However, the real story is not a story of whites lynching blacks. The real story is that at a time when 2% of the population or less was black they accounted for most of the crime for which lynchings were deployed.

Just like today minus the lynching.