Talk:Roscoe Jackson

Feedback from New Page Review process
I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Great job on the article. I suggest nominating it for WP:DYK — it looks very interesting.

C F A  💬  14:06, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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)


 * 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)