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MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show July 25, 2014

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. He tried to avoid the death sentence, but the county did convict him and they were determined to hang him and sheriff Florence Shoemaker Thompson thereby ....

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Ralph Josephsohn: The multi-headed hydra of human nature

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. ....

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