Biography on sacco and vanzetti executions
Sacco and vanzetti trial...
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder on August 23,
On April 15, , a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his guard.
The murderers, who were described as two Italian men, escaped with more than $15, After going to a garage to claim a car that police said was connected with the crime, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and charged with the crime.
Biography on sacco and vanzetti executions
Although both men carried guns and made false statements upon their arrest, neither had a previous criminal record. On July 14, , they were convicted and sentenced to die.
Anti-radical sentiment was running high in America at the time, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was regarded by many as unlawfully sensational.
Authorities had failed to come up with any evidence of the stolen money, and much of the other evidence against them was later d