After I wrote the above quoted comment, I was alerted to a massive case of injustice at the hands of corrupt police and a less than honest DA......involving a very close family member of a popular member here. For that I am sorry......there are always cases that are the exception.Giuseppe (joe) Zangara, who supposedly shot at FDR, and killed the mayor of Chicago instead, committed his crime on February 15, 1933. The mayor died on March 6th, of sepsis. After spending ten days on death row, Joe was executed on March 20, 1933.
There is a theory that Zangara really was a mafia-hired assasin, and Anton Cermak, the mayor, WAS the real target.
Zangara was short, standing on a rickety chair to shoot, and he was intentionally bumped by a woman standing next to him.
If Cermak wasnt the target, he was an unlucky sob.
Apart from that....