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The day after her husbands funeral. And as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the United States, the reason Florence Shoemaker Thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. Just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an africanamerican man named Rainey Bethea was sentenced to die in davis county, kentucky, after he was convicted of raping and murdering a local white woman. He did not protest his innocence. Although he did fight his sentence. H...

People can be transfixed by violence. The more gruesome and outrageous the violence, the better. One need only look at fans cheering athletes pummeling each other with concussive force. Jalopies bash and crash into each other in a metal mangling demolition derby. March Madness is outdone by Perennial Insanity.

From 1969 to 1976, what’s now the Owensboro Museum of Science and History was housed in the Carnegie Building at Ninth and Frederica streets.

You wouldn’t think that it would be that hard to kill someone.

Capital punishment isn’t about what criminals deserve; it’s about who we are