- Dominic Daley
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Dominic Daley (1771–1805) was an Irishman who emigrated to America and lived and worked in Boston. He and James Halligan were arrested on November 12, 1805 and convicted for the murder of Marcus Lyon. They protested their innocence, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus, a priest from Boston came, with great personal risk, to assist them in their last moments. An estimated 15,000 people came to Northampton to view the execution.
On St. Patrick's Day, 1984, Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation exonerating Daley and Halligan.[1]
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Categories:- 1771 births
- 1805 deaths
- Executed American people
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons
- American people convicted of murder
- People convicted of murder by Massachusetts
- People executed by Massachusetts
- 19th-century executions by the United States
- People executed for murder
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