Florence Katherine Shoemaker Thompson Riney (October 30, 1892 – April 13, 1961) was the first female sheriff in the United States of America to carry out an execution. Rainey Bethea, the last man to be publicly executed in the U.S., was convicted of rape and sentenced to death by hanging in Daviess County, Kentucky.
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30 October 1892 Louisville, Kentucky
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Died |
13 April 1961 (aged 68) Owensboro, Kentucky
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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