Why America stopped showing executions: The 1936 Kentucky hanging that sparked a ban, and what a Hasan firing squad livestream could change 90 years later

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On August 14, 1936, thousands of people travelled to Owensboro, Kentucky, to watch a man die. The man was Rainey Bethea, a Black man sentenced to death for rape. His hanging became one of the most notorious spectacles in American criminal justice history. Now, nine decades later, the US is…