Two days later Dolezal confessed to killing Florence Polillo, five days later he recanted his confession after a lie detector test, on 24 August he was found dead in his cell. (5 July 1939)
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Friday 7th of January 1898 (-) — Presumed murderer Jack O’Neil is executed by hanging. O'Neil's last words were "I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me hanged will live to see the day when it is proved I am innocent - and it will be, some time". A few months later a dying Shellburne Falls soldier fighting the Spaniards in Cuba confessed to the murder. O'Neil became the last man to be executed in Massachussetts.