Public executions in the US faded after 1936, but the Pentagon plans to livestream Nidal Hasan’s death
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The Pentagon says it will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, reopening debate on public death in America. The last high-profile public hanging was Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky on 14 August 1936, before an estimated 20,000 spectators; Kentucky’s governor outlawed public executions 18 months later.
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