The Last Public Execution In The United States Was 'Like A Carnival'

After public outcry from both sides of the political aisle, last week President Trump reversed Pete Hegseth's call that convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution be livestreamed. The livestream would have been the first public execution in the United States in 90 years. The last one was in 1936, when a man was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, before a crowd of thousands. Author and historian Sonya Lea told Inside Edition about the disturbing death of Rainey Bethea.