Rainey Bethea: The photographic story of America’s last public execution, 1936
Rainey Bethea (born in 1909) was the last person to be publicly executed in the Unit…
Rainey Bethea (born in 1909) was the last person to be publicly executed in the Unit…
It was the night of June 29, 1941, in the foothills of Murmansk, Soviet Union. C…
The soldiers in the picture were executed after a military trial found them in v…
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It’s interesting to see the range of emotions displayed by these men: anguish, d…
A Soviet spy laughs at his executioner in a picture taken in Rukajärvi, in East …
This was a mock execution attempting to get the resistance fighter, Georges Blin…
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On the reverse of this photograph reads: "Zum ewigen Andenken an den Spartakiste…