To the uneducated like myself. Whats going on here? Are they about to hang someone?
Rainey Bethea
Helpful as a breadcrumb.
because I haven’t done it in a while
He was one of the last people to be hanged in the United States. August 14, 1936.
It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.
Regardless of the man’s crime, I’m not sure public executions are the way to go.
I personally don’t think executions in general are the way to go. Too many people get exonerated years or decades after their convictions.
It’s also a shitty thing to do to the guilty too.
I couldn’t agree more actually! I just wanted to choose one thing at a time.
I took a university class about wrongful convictions in the early 2000s and a man came and talked to the class who had spent decades in one of the worst prisons in the country, wrongfully. It really opened my eyes at a younger age to how susceptible people are to bias and faulty memory.
The justice system is neither.
Truly, I only meant: that is helpful, as a breadcrumb 🤓
The smartphone was not invented until 2008. The internet did not become mainstream until the 90s.
Before that we had people. Love affairs. The rise and fall of civilizations. Tragedies both great and small. Triumphs. Progress and improvements.
Leave your phone at home and go to a park and talk to a stranger. Imagine.
Last time I talked to a stranger, I learned the Jews were controlling the weather with satellites and it’s all a big insurance scam.
So I’ve moved back to my phone.
2007*
