The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...
The last public execution in the United States happened less than a century ago in Kentucky. Rainey Bethea, a Black man accused of raping a white woman, was hanged in 1936. Now his death is at the ...
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