List of individuals executed in Kentucky

List of individuals executed in Kentucky

Since the reinstation of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, two people have been executed in Kentucky. Both were for murder.

Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. On 14 August 1936 by hanging for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had confessed to her strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was hanging. It was to be the last public hanging in the United States; the execution was witnessed by thousands in downtown Owensboro.

See also

* Capital punishment in the United States


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