People who lie on their deathbeds

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For me, personally, the final evidence of the guilt of British criminal Hanratty, of anarchist Nicola Sacco. and of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - however different the circumstances - have been a personal shock. They are the undeniable proof that people can lie even in the face of death and eternity, that claims of innocence from the scaffold are no

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[ravenclaw_eric]

Another example of that is Carlyle "Carl" Harris. In the 1890s, he murdered the girl to whom he'd secretly been married by giving her some pills that included one poisonous one (Harris was studying medicine, and standards about who may prescribe drugs were less strict than they became later). Even though a web of circumstantial evidence was woven around him that pointed straight to guilt, he was still saying that he was innocent as they strapped him into the chair.

And Bruno Richard Hauptmann never confessed, either, even though there can be no real doubt that he and no other kidnapped and murdered Charles Lindbergh, Jr. The only reason that his guilt was ever questioned was because his widow never, never gave up on trying to get him exonerated.