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Public executions in the US faded after 1936, but the Pentagon plans to livestream Nidal Hasan’s death

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 publi