The BRUTAL Execution Of The Final Public Hanging In America
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Throughout History and the centuries there have been thousands of executions that put to death a condemned criminal. Many of these were performed in public for example during the Tudor period crowds would flock to see them, but in America the final public execution occurred in 1936. Rainey Bethea's execution was viewed by a crowd of around 20,000 and his crime was described as one of the most shocking ever to occur in the local area, but when he was taken to the gallows he was just 26. But what did he do?
Rainey Bethea had a troubled life, but turned to crime and this would lead to him breaking into the home of a 70 year old woman. He would rob her and steal all her jewellery, but then he murdered her and her neighbours found her body. There was a manhunt for him as he left his prison ring at the scene of the crime, but despite fleeing for a number of days he was arrested and was sentenced to death. In front of a huge crowd he was led out to the gallows, and today he is remembered for being the final person to have been publicly executed in the USA.
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This channel single-handedly changed the meaning of the word "BRUTAL" to mean "normal", as in "every single one". Can't wait for his video titled "The MOST BRUTAL Execution of an innocent fly by swatting in THE WORLD".
I agree this was hardly brutal. He got what he deserved. A clean execution. painless, now just think about the last few minutes of life the victim had to endure. IMO he got off easy.
Fighter pilots and flies are alike. Know the last thing to go through either one's mind when they're swatted or crashed? Their a-holes.
He was tried convicted and sentenced according to the laws in place at the time.
The sentence was carried out accordingly.
Yes, this was just and lawful.
Yes but how it was carried out is what they're blowing their nose about
@@stanzaloan3454 That was the method used at the time and executions were also public.
Can't change history no matter how much you moan about it.
@@williamegler8771 Yeah! except you're wrong on both fronts the electric chair had overtaken hanging as a primary execution method back in 1899 and was adopted in the state of Virginia in 1908 as Death by electrocution was seen as a more humane approach. Secondly, court-sanctioned public executions in the USA weren't all that common and if a sentence was to be held in view of the public it was usually done in the courthouse or prison itself not in the street. The fact is that this case was unusual even for its time that's why we still talk about it all these years later. The "it was a different time" argument is the bane of any intellectuals existence and a fairly lame cop-out because it never really turns out to be true. even back then people thought his manner of death was brutal that's why the laws changed.
@@stanzaloan3454 - I think all executions should be public. Too many people want to live sheltered in a bubble, never really seeing the realities of life. I know people who get offended if someone says “sugar” instead of the curse ‘$hit”. There is a very ugly side of society, crimes that are incomprehensible for most people. Capital punishment is necessary for some offenders. No amount of rehabilitation can make them suitable to live and walk among us.
Lethal injection, most commonly used, is very humane, too humane some say, considering the savageness inflicted on their victims.
He got what he deserved. His victim didn’t deserve what she got.
Also, not all murders qualify for the death penalty. There are specific requirements that must be met. In the end, less than 1% of all convicted murderers are ever executed. About half of those on death row die from natural causes. Some are exonerated due to new scientific breakthroughs. Today, when a murderer is finally executed, there is no doubt of guilt. Years past, they had to go with the tools available at the time. They did the best they could at the time.
They need to bring it back for criminals and traitors
" They" being...?
THE F******G WORLD!@@thrummer1953
How is this "BRUTAL" as in the title of the video. A person plead guilty and was convicted of murder. His neck snapped so he likely felt no pain. The drunk executioner is a problem but nothing else.
Titles like that get more prominence on CZcams, in fact anything in capitals from what gets pushed onto my list , from this to a mechanic replacing a BOLT get pushed.
Exactly
>person commits crime
>person confesses to crime
>person punished
>person black
>obvious racism and bigotry
@@turdferguson9356 Probably for sure no doubt.
It's the header to the entire series, not just this specific video. Hanging is considered brutal, especially in context of racist lynchings. There is a reason hanging is no longer used in America. That reason? Brutality.
Stop being a moron.
Wasn't it brutal to his victim to lose her life.
Is he her victim?
He thinks so, so you must believe it 😂@@Zed-ti9uj
A public execution is “brutal” by definition. So many comments decrying the use of the word, is it not violent enough for your taste?
Greetings from the bluegrass state. I never knew that and I live here.
a black man in the south during the middle of jim crow. I wonder if he was actually guilty or if the authorities were desperate for a body to hang
Good point
I thought the same thing, but a decent price of evidence is that his ring was found in her home. That is, if it actually was found there
I wonder if bringing back public executions would have a positive impact on severe crimes? Perhaps the public seeing the brutality of such a spectacle might indeed influence some to alter their way of life. Just a thought....
Clearly didn't stop this guy
@@thatguy2756 No, clearly it did not. If ya read my statement I said it MIGHT have a positive effect on some who, upon witnessing a public execution, may be so shocked by the event that they clean up their act, so to say. I made no blanket statement.
@@whiplash8277 it won't, these people know right from wrong and they are so nutty impulsive they can't even get to a thought about consequences, they can't think in rational steps. I bet 100% of these people can't make out a weekly grocery list for a weeks worth of meals, they can't see, think or contemplate reactions of an action, they definitely aren't going to let something like consequences seep into there subconscious
Absolutely. Many US states have capital punishment and we all know how the country has one of the lowest crime rates, the smallest prison population in the w….oh wait
The types who attended public hangings really enjoyed the spectacle. It is unlikely it would have any positive impact on anyone's behaviour. But in colonial Africa British colonial officials insisted on public hangings will into the mid 20th century, long after the practice had ceased in the UK, because they were of the opinion that the natives would not believe a condemned man had really been executed, unless they saw it happen with their own eyes. The large numbers of murderers sentenced to death but commuted to prison sentences and eventually released apparently served to confirm the conviction that murderers could often get away with it. Unfortunately the British colonial executioners were not as skilled as they counterparts in the UK, which resulted in numerous public displays of botched hangings with broken ropes etc. One prison officer drew his revolver and shot a condemned man in the head after the rope had broken twice and was nearly charged with murder himself. Someone should make a CZcams video about Britain's inglorious record of executing its colonial subjects.
We should bring it back and put a law into effect any murders and. Rapist of any kind will be punishable by hanging and there will be no more life imprisonment any time or death nothing else
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For those asking every such video this creator makes labels the execution as brutal, or something similar.
And I do believe it's about time he stopped doing it...
It's brutal for the fella getting the chop
@@invisibleray6987 To be fair every execution is brutal. The idea of a humane execution is a lie. (A start to a much longer discussion.)
@@JohnMiller-te4ov savage
I Noticed...
We need it back!
You only want it back until it’s being done to you. You don’t actually want it back
@@IvyM0125 he is not criminal, why would it happen to him. He want it back because he want to have a peaceful society, not wanting criminals, meaning that he is not a subject to this. And what is it different between public execution and indoor execution? Either ways, it is the same to the man that get executed, just different in sending a message to the people not to do bad you.
@@IvyM0125 if we bring this back, Walmart might will come back to Chicago, I'm just saying sense.
@@chithiennguyen1371”Walmart might will come back” grammar all fucked up
@@chithiennguyen1371and you don’t know if the person who initially commented is innocent or not. Many people get away with crimes you don’t know about.
God bless America 🇺🇸
I doubt God will bless America!
With their senseless attacks on their own people and the atrocities they have committed on innocent civilians in other countries!
@@radhasen.animalwelfare.5644 This is American social media, so you have no reason to be here.
Let's be honest. God ain't blessing America anymore. She's in her death throws atm
@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 Actually, the US has the strongest and largest economy in the world and we're the only super power, so how are we not blessed?
@@ChadwickTheChad China already overtook your economy.. The glory days of USA are over.. What you still believe everyone wants to be American? Mate 1950s America is gone. Your country is tearing itself apart from within. You've allowed foreign globalist interests to subvert your culture and ideals.. Now you're just a corrupt cesspit. The fall has begun and Jesus or trump ain't saving you now. And I'm not anti Jesus or anything, but you're living in la la land if you believe God is still blessing your wicked nation
I'm seeing two major things happening in the comment section of this video the first being a massive group of people decrying the use of the term "brutal" to describe what happened to this man and then another group of butt-hurt Americans (my fellow countrymen) who feel like they have to overcompensate for the events of the past by spouting off about how great the USA is today or how different things were back then. I believe both of these factions are acting childishly and they're doing it for the same reasons. Frankly, there are two factors about this case that make people very uncomfortable when reviewing it in retrospect and those factors being that the perpetrator was African-American and his death technically counts at the last public lynching ever court ordered in the USA. Discomfort aside let's be objective about this. The crime was committed in the 1930s the electric chair had to overtaken hanging as the more humane alternative in 1899. Meaning at the time of this man's conviction death by electrocution would've been commonplace and a viable option Also during this time executions we're largely private affairs with only the victim or the victim's family allowed to be present. Other compounding factors include that Florence Thompson Roanoke county's only female sheriff presided over this execution and was heavily incentivized to make an example out of Bethea and restore a sense of peace in the community. So much so that she hired the first whacko who wanted the job. I won't dare proclaim him innocent Rainey Bethea raped and killed a 70 year old woman he was a monster in man's flesh and for that he surely deserved to be punished but anyone attempting to assert that his manner of execution was without incident or bias is sadly deluding themselves and frankly in my opinion acting out indignantly because having an Englishman, a perceived "outsider" speak on the not so pleasant happenings of our nations past inflames their self-righteously jingoistic view of the United States.
A lynching and a hanging have different meanings,one is legal the other not,retrospect that!
It was not a lynching but a public execution administered after a lawful court concluded its verdict with irrefutable evidence and a confection. Skin colour aint got nothing to do with it. As for the electric chair a clean drop rather than fried chicken head any day of the week. This colour grifting is allowing criminals to run amok.
He was of African descent. He was African American. He was not “of African American consent”.
Bring them back and expand the crimes eligible
No television back then, sides he was a bad person👹
Brutal?
Was the rape and murder of a defenseless 70 year old woman brutal?
He committed a heinous crime for which he was tried convicted and sentenced for.
The sentence was death and the sentence was carried out accordingly..
@@williamegler8771 It was a well deserved punishment,not “brutal “ as the author suggested .
@@williamegler8771 Yes. Doesn't change brutal acts to other people. Your logic is flawed.
Wonder if that's where "making a hash of things" comes from?
Well, they made a Hash of that Brown Guy.
My grandfather was there....he was twenty and watched from atop the closest tree....said it was a circus....food venders, picnics on the ground and screaming laughing kids....it was great fun.
a shifty character
I think it’s disgusting how people went to see it what is wrong with them. He committed a cowardly crime and he paid the price
It was considered entertainment, public executions happened here and still happen around the globe.
Heck in the UK the public not only watched it in huge crowds, they used to wipe up the blood of the executed as a souvenir.
Fun for the whole family
The price 🙋🏿♂️
Should be more public executions.
Execution should always be public. As for this man he was tried and convicted in a court of law
Why do you want to watch someone die if they didn't affect you, a friend or family member? Hatred isn't a valid reason, that's just fuqqed up 😆
Thank you for your today’s answer.
Honestly, I am unable to answer your question (“Really? How come I’ve never heard of the continent of ‘America’”), because I do not know your educational background.
However, do believe me: there are 6 continents in this planet: America (from Canada to Argentina), Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Antarctica.
Many years ago, (1492) a Genoese (C. Columbus) discovered America, the new continent.
Best regards.
You accidentally posted a comment to the wrong video. This is about executions.
Thank you for your answer.
I only refered to the name of the country: United States, NOT America.
Regards.
@@raouldontneedthem3416 The country if the United States which is also called America. You're so ashamed of your own nation, that you're keeping it a secret so you can pretend to be American.
Question ! Took place in Oklahoma ? Yes/No ?
He is incorrectly described out of ignorance of being African-American. That is ONLY possible if one of his parents was actually African and the other American. Please do your research before you write video descriptions 'TheFortress'. You also MUCH overuse the word 'brutal' in your titles as well. Give it a break.
I'm sorry do you not know what the term African-American denotes? the definition of the word is literally "a Black American of African descent." Perhaps you are not from the USA perhaps you're from a country where biracial people have their own specific label but here in the US there is no distinction made between the two. African-American has never meant that you literally emigrated to the country from Africa recently it simply means that your racial or ethnic origins can be traced back to that continent in some degree or fashion such is the case for black Americans who are The descendants of slaves. It's a dual use term that denotes both race and nationality not one or the other. In the same way that you could say a white American of french descent is European-American and that an An American woman of indigenous descent is "Native American" Also what are you really upset about here? because I doubt one word triggered you so much. You're trying to play a game of semantics instead of addressing whatever it is about this video that truly makes you uncomfortable.
Whenever you see someone using the name "truth teller" , or ANYTHING with the word "truth" in it, you can safely bet that the person is dumber than a dried cat turd, and a bigger liar than Joe Biden.
The term was correct, so you may delete your comment now.
@@maxsdad538 You didn't describe what Biden lied about before you ran away.
Looks hella of lot like M O?
Everything is BRUTAL lol
Everything is BRUTEIFUL in its own way y yyyy
@Invisible Ray Ughhh...
He thought pleading guilty would save him. No Sir. Sucks that the executioner was drunk. I agree he shouldn't have been there at all. At least his neck snapped though. That's a lot of people.
He should have been allowed to plead guilty.
Most states won't allow it if the penalty of capital punishment is being applied.
Please, NOT in America, but in the United States. America is a continent, NOT a country what-so-ever!
Really? How come I've never heard of the continent of "America"?
@@maxsdad538 Never heard of it?
You should be proud of where you come from instead of pretending that you're from the US.
@@ChadwickTheChad It is not a question of being proud or not; it is a question of Geography.
And, of course, I am American (as much as you are) but NOT from the United States.
@@raouldontneedthem3416 I understand that you want to pretend to be American, but you're a foreigner. This is why we look down on foreigners. You're not as intelligent as we are.
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Who knew so many Neanderthals walk amongst us?
Neanderthal or not they executed his rac1$t b1ch @zz
@@r0ckstar666 that's not at all what my comment was about. Place this where it's wanted.
@@EnDBHi Ma'am last Hanging lol I bet this guy was Desperately hoping he wouldn't be the last guy Left Hanging 😥😵 but he didn't have any other choice lol would you kinda agree with me?
I think as a society we would benefit from public executions
It’s not a game,and consequences are real
Did he fart to camptown race's?
Brutal ?