Biography
Giuseppe Bologna was one of six young men held in the Sing Sing death house after conviction for the killing of a Brooklyn BMT station employee. The December report describes their relatives seeking clemency and says allegations of coercive interrogation were denied. These are disputed allegations, not an independent finding of innocence. The May 12 report identifies the same defendant as Joseph Bolognia, gives the sentencing day as May 11, and says the defendants were arrested three days after the September 2, 1935 killing; September 5 is derived from that explicit interval. The sources vary in the victim’s name (Edwin Esposito and Edward Oposito) and in the defendants’ names. No actual execution, later outcome or completed custody duration is inferred. Corroborating May report: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n114-NY-May-12-1936-DW-Q.pdf Daily Worker, December 18, 1936, page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n303-XX-dec-18-1936-DW-Q.pdf
A memorial notice identifies Joseph Bolognia as one of the original six Brooklyn defendants sentenced to death for the 1935 holdup killing of Edwin Esposito, the same prosecution described in this profile under Giuseppe Bologna. It reports that Bolognia and Theodore DiDonne had been executed in Sing Sing “last Thursday.” Relative to the issue’s Thursday, January 14, 1937 masthead, this means January 7, 1937; the day is derived from that explicit calendar relation. The Friday memorial remained prospective, but the executions are reported as completed. The source supplies no physical jail-admission date or complete custody duration.
Daily Worker, January 14, 1937, original PDF page 5, Memorial for Two Who Died in the Chair.