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  1. In May 1920 Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and accused of armed robbery on a shoe factory, during which a significant amount of money was stolen and two people were killed. They had radical anti ...

  2. Aug 23, 2016 · On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed after being sentenced to murdering a pay master and a security guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The trial and proceedings leading up to their executions is famous in United States history because of the significance it held in revealing the judicial process as xenophobic.

  3. May 27, 2021 · Bettmann / Getty Images. For six years, starting in 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti watched from death row as writers argued for their freedom, politicians debated their case, and ...

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  4. Aug 30, 2024 · In full: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S. (1921–27), that resulted in their executions. The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli ...

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  5. Aug 31, 2017 · I wrote a book about how and why the case of Sacco and Vanzetti evolved from an obscure local criminal trial to a national and international scandal. I refer to it in the book as the transition ...

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  6. The case of Sacco and Vanzetti drew international attention and is still debated today. On April 15, 1920, two employees of a shoe factory were shot and killed in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Three weeks later, two poor Italian immigrants were arrested and charged with robbery and murder.

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  8. Jan 7, 2020 · Updated on January 07, 2020. Two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Batolomeo Vanzetti, died in the electric chair in 1927. Their case was widely seen as an injustice. After convictions for murder, followed by a lengthy legal battle to clear their names, their executions were met with mass protests across America and Europe.

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