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Final Public Execution in the US (1936)
In 1936, convicted rapist Rainey Bethea was sentenced to be hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, at a time when such hangings were conducted publicly. Because the county sheriff supervising the execution was a woman, the case sparked national press coverage, and up to 20,000 spectators gathered to watch the event, the last of its kind in the US. Two years later, the Kentucky legislature officially put an end to public executions.

No need to ban something that doesn't happen.

No state allows sibling marriage.

I guess you were trying to take a dig at The Boot, but to seriously answer your question, sibling marriage was banned there from its first laws, those being codified in 1808, four years prior to its admittance as a state in 1812.  I had to check the correct date to use there, but it appears that its admission as a state had no bearing on the laws it had already adopted and codified.  I thought maybe everything sort of "reset" if you become a state and you have to institute a new round of laws, but apparently not.  That makes more sense why we've got so much Napoleonic Code left over.  

And if we're talking about the land itself, and not the "state" as such, both French and Spanish civil law governed the area before it was purchased as a territory, and both already prohibited sibling marriage.  So the real answer is.....I'm not sure....further back than I know how to quickly find.  Prior to 1803 when it was acquired from France.  But since we can say that the laws were technically redone when Louisiana adopted the Digest of Civil Laws in 1808 and that is the basis from which all state law originates today, I'll say 1808.  

No state allows sibling marriage.

I guess you were trying to take a dig at The Boot, but to seriously answer your question, sibling marriage was banned there from its first laws, those being codified in 1808, four years prior to its admittance as a state in 1812.  I had to check the correct date to use there, but it appears that its admission as a state had no bearing on the laws it had already adopted and codified.  I thought maybe everything sort of "reset" if you become a state and you have to institute a new round of laws, but apparently not.  That makes more sense why we've got so much Napoleonic Code left over. 

IIRC, Utah's admission as a State was conditioned on banning polygamy.  That is the only case I can think of in which a State's admission was conditioned on their marriage laws.  

Weird history:

Louisiana banned marriage between first cousins in 1902.  Mississippi banned it in 1906. 

Texas banned it in......

.....

......2005.

California, New York, and Florida banned it in lolznojk......they still allow it.  WTactualF, CaliYorkida?

No need to ban something that doesn't happen.

Exactly. It must have been something in those states that it became such a common problem, it was worthy of attention. 

That said, I'm sure in Louisiana, they might not be able to get married...

...but they still fuckin'. 

I single out who I need to 

gotta stir that pot somehow

Birthdays
1851 Doc Holliday
1930 Earl Weaver
1945 Steve Martin
1950 Gary Larson
1959 Magic Johnson
1966 Halle Berry

Events
1824 General Lafayette returns to the US

1842 US Army Colonel Worth declares the Second Seminole War over after nearly seven years; over 3,000 surviving members of the Seminole Nation are forcibly relocated from Florida to Oklahoma, with only about 300 permitted to remain

1846 The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite, strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Missouri

1846 American naturalist Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes

1873 Field & Stream begins publishing

1901 First claimed powered flight by Gustave Whitehead in his No. 21 aircraft near Bridgeport, Connecticut

1909 Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, home of the Indy 500, hosts its first motorized event, a series of motorcycle races

1932 Philips makes its 1 millionth radio

1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower is named commander for the invasion of North Africa

1945 V-J Day, the Empire of Japan surrenders unconditionally to the Allies, ending World War II



1958 Cleveland Indian Vic Power steals home twice in one game

1965 The Beatles tape an appearance for the US variety show "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Notice both The Beatles Sullivan touched are dead - I never liked that guy

1971 Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0

1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold

1982 MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose's 12,365th at-bat sets a record, passing Hank Aaron

1986 Phillies and Pirates play a six-game series in four days

1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with its rings

2015 Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center

2019 "It is raining plastic" survey is published; plastic found in 90% of rain samples taken in Colorado by US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey