Florence Schumaker Thompson News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Her name was Florence Schumaker Thompson. She was asked if she would fill in and become the sheriff in her husbands absence. She said yes. She was sworn in in davis county 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 Schumaker 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 rainy bathea 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. He tried to avoid the death sentence, ....

New York , United States , Israel General , West Bank , District Of Columbia , United Kingdom , Saudi Arabia , Robin Konrad , Florence Schumaker Thompson , John Kerry , Gary Locke , Barack Obama , Nancy Pelosi , John Boehner , Joe Biden , Austin Sarat , Rachel Maddow , Anthony Kennedy , Joseph Everett Thompson , Max Baucus , Alex Kosinski , Paul Ryan , Davis County , First Woman , Police Officer , New York Daily News ,