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After 75 years, last public hanging haunts city
Pioneer Press ^
| 08/13/2011
| Brett Barrouquere
Posted on 08/14/2011 5:27:47 PM PDT by KyGeezer
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To say the city is haunted is a stretch. Hardly anybody knew about the hanging until the article in the newspaper here.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:28:02 PM PDT
by
KyGeezer
To: KyGeezer
I do not presume to comment on this particular case, but I have to say — ‘Law & Order’ worked.
Tar & feathers, hangings, ‘shoot ‘em if you catch them in the act’ — sometimes it is not good to throw out EVERY old tradition.
tongue in cheek, sort of.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:32:09 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: KyGeezer
Swimmers swim.
Journalists lie.
Just what they do.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:32:49 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: KyGeezer
Actually, if they dropped the accused four to five feet, it’s a pretty humane way of execution. It just looks brutal. But if they merely suffocated them, that would be pretty bad.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:32:49 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: KyGeezer
Owensboro is better known for the Moonlight Barbecue than the last hanging.
To: KyGeezer
The crime for which Bethea was tried had played as big news in Owensboro: A wealthy, white, 70-year-old widow, Elza Edwards, was raped and strangled in her bed. After less than five minutes of deliberation, a jury convicted Bethea of rape. Under the law at the time, the maximum penalty for a rape conviction was hanging in the county where the offense occurred.
Ah, yes, the good ole' days when the punishment actually fit the crime. Now they just get therapy and probation.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:33:11 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(When in the Course of human events...)
To: KyGeezer
Guess what he did to get hung.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:34:51 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: KyGeezer
I can think of some congress critters that need hangin...
Just saying...
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:35:47 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
To: KyGeezer
Lincoln's assassin conspirators...
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:36:17 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: KyGeezer
To: Popman
Hell, no apologies necc. Hang em, fry em, inject em, they’re traitors to the country.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:38:47 PM PDT
by
max americana
(FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
To: gorush
A civil war deserter:
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:39:13 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: KyGeezer
Stand by for plenty of this for the next 15 months.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:41:07 PM PDT
by
paddles
("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
To: KyGeezer
Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were hanged in Kansas. It must have been in the 60’s. Probably not considered public tho.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:41:17 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: gorush
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:41:28 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: yarddog
Did their hanging fit the MSM template of white person hangs blackman ?
If not not newsworthy today to stir up old racism issues
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:45:38 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
To: yarddog
Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were hanged in KansasCan't think of any two people more deserving of hanging too.
Great book, but Capote's "man-love" for Perry Smith is demented.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:46:30 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: KyGeezer
I went to Wikipedia and read the story on this hanging. It is pretty interesting.
The guy was hanged for rape. He confessed 5 times then denied his confession.
The Sherriff was a woman who got her job because her husband had it previously, It was the Sheriffs job to do the hanging, but an ex-policeman volunteered to do it for her. Then a man who had supervised many previous hangings showed up to make sure it was done right.
He placed the guy on the scaffold and called to the ex-policeman to trip the door, but the ex-policeman was drunk and some other guy standing next to him actually did the deed.
In any case the guy was guilty and justice prevailed. Nothing to be haunted about.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:50:09 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Popman
Did their hanging fit the MSM template of white person hangs blackman ? If not not newsworthy today to stir up old racism issues
The 75th anniversary of the last public hanging is reasonably newsworthy, no matter who was involved.
To: Flycatcher
I used to live only a couple of hundred yards from where the Clutter family is buried. Also used to shoot on property owned by the KBI, later FBI agent who caught Smith and Hickok.
I agree, they were totally deserving of being hanged. Yes, the book made the characters a bit too sympathetic. It still was good reading tho.
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posted on
08/14/2011 5:54:40 PM PDT
by
yarddog
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