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Chip Bok

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October 14, 2026

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Rainey Bethea

with Sheriff’s deputies as they escort him from Louisville, Ky.,

to his public execution in Owensboro, Ky, in 1936.

Photograph:

The Messenger-Inquirer, via Associated Press

When We Kill

Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong.

NYT

June 14, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/
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Perhaps 20,000 people gathered

to witness the hanging of Rainey Bethea

in Owensboro, Ky., in 1936.

Photograph:  Newsmakers/Getty Images

When We Kill

Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong.

NYT

June 14, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/
opinion/sunday/death-penalty.html

public execution

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Rainey_Bethea - 1936

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