<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea" id="mwAQs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rainey Bethea">Rainey Bethea</a> is hanged in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owensboro,_Kentucky" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Owensboro, Kentucky">Owensboro, Kentucky</a> in the last known public <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capital punishment in the United States">execution in the United States</a>.<sup about="#mwt172" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_14#cite_note-32" id="mwAQ4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQ8">[32]</span></a></sup>
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