on aug fourteenth in owensboro kentucky raney the thea was publicly hanging by a white sheriff many black but dia was innocent. one new york times reporter wrote ten thousand white persons some jaring another's festive saw prayerful black men put to death today and davies county's piton gallows. the outcry over rainy bothy is hanging did not put an end to capital punishment instead it drove executions behind prison walls out of public view. state officials built death houses and institutionalized the practice. it's a death by formula it's a scripted death in the beginning it was hanging it was not only hanging but it was public and so you see the crowds come in and bring in a picnic luncheon celebrating then we move from hanging to the electric chair and then we began to hammer the horror stories that happened out of the electric chair . and then there has been a move to lethal injection and lethal injection is likely going medicinal so that we'll just be putting them to sleep. but not everyone agrees. the idea that they should go out in an opiate haze that it should be a pleasant death i

i'm melisa raney reporting. (pam) the man accused of killing a police officer ... and wounding six others in south carolina.. appeared in court today. the judge today denied bail to the 74- year old frederick hopkins jr.... hopkins is accused of opening fire ... from his home in an affluent neighborhood, after deputies tried to carry out a search warrant. in addition to the murder charge, he is facing six charges of attempted murder .. in the wounding of six other law enforcement officers. (ken) investigators say a 62-year-old demonstrator was at fault when she was injured by a sacramento county sheriff's patrol vehicle in march(pam) in the report released today, the c-h-p says, activist wanda cleveland walked into the path of the s-u-v... before she was hit. cleveland was one of 100 demonstrators protesting the fatal shooting of stephon clark, when she was struck by the patrole vehicle. (ken) previously released video from a dashboard camera inside the sheriff's vehicle shows it hitting cleveland and driving away. her attorney says she hit her head, injured her ar