Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 April 1912

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

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.
(7 January 1898)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 9th of April 1912 114 years, 11 months and 7 days ago
Black business owner Thomas Miles is lynched by hanging from a tree and his body filled with bullets at the age of 29 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Miles had been tried in police court the day before on a charge of writing insulting notes to a white girl employed in a department store but was acquitted for lack of proof.