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Florence Shoemaker Thompson

First female sheriff in USA

Died when: 68 years 165 days (821 months)
Star Sign: Scorpio

 

Florence Shoemaker Thompson

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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