To begin with, the last person known to have been publicly executed in the United States, was a man named Rainey Bethea. In 1936 Rainey Bethea confessed to the rape and murder Lischia Edwards and sentenced to death by hanging in Owensboro Kentucky. Unfortunately, due to an inebriated executioner, the execution went awry and Rainey died 14 minutes later. One would assume that after something like that, our country would have ended the unnerving, distasteful act of executions all together. Instead we’ve settled for executions to be conducted privately and limited to only a select few related to the executed. Since 1982 botched execution have occurred 47 times as of December 9 2015. Now I understand and can easily assume the reasons why in the
