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A fact from Roscoe Jackson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Roscoe "Red" Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Roscoe "Red" Jackson.

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 16:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Roscoe "Red" Jackson was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?

Source: May 26, 1937. "Red" Jackson Pays for Crime on Gallows. Stone County News-Oracle. [1]

Reviewed:

Created by GuyBanks (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

GuyBanks (talk) 14:29, 25 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Alternative source: ^[1] GuyBanks (talk) 20:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The article is long enough and new enough with no copyright violations. The article is neutral. The hook is directly cited, and a QPQ is not needed. My only concern is the last reference because the website Before the Needles is a personal website according to the home page. SL93 (talk) 23:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source is question has been removed. The claim made in that section was already cited by a valid secondary source and remains as such. GuyBanks (talk) 05:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is ready. SL93 (talk) 13:50, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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^ "Missouri Death Penalty". Death Penalty Info.

Dubious claim re: Roscoe Jackson being the last public execution

The claim that Roscoe Jackson's execution was the "last public execution in the United States" is supported in the article with the following source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/stone-county-news-oracle-roscoe-jackson/149952339/

However, that source does not support that claim.

The source never states that the execution was public or that it was the last public execution in the U.S.

More importantly, the source was written five days after Roscoe Jackson's execution, so there is no way they could have stated that his execution would be the final public execution to take place in the United States because, only five days removed from the event, they would have no way of knowing if any public executions would follow that of Roscoe Jackson.

If there is a source confirming that claim, then it should be included; otherwise, it feels dubious at best and weakly supported. The general consensus (which I tend to agree with) is that Rainey Bethea was subjected to the last genuinely public execution in the U.S., and I think there needs to be much stronger justification for Roscoe Jackson's article challenging that claim. Afddiary (talk) 13:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have corrected the dubious claim, adding two new sources in place of the claimed dubious one.

GuyBanks (talk) 14:16, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Missouri Death Penalty". Death Penalty Info.

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