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 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.