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∙ 10y agoMany believed they were convicted for being immigrants and radical anarchists rather than the crime.
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∙ 10y agoNicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants that were accused of robbery and murder during the Red Scare of the 1920s.
Sacco-Vanzetti
convicted of murder
the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
In 1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were tried for murder. Due to bias beliefs of the judge, Webster Thayer, they were sentenced to death and executed on August 23, 1927, via electrocution.
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants that were accused of robbery and murder during the Red Scare of the 1920s.
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco
Sacco-Vanzetti
convicted of murder
they were italian immigrants who were accused of being anarchists and executed
Their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity
Their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity
the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927.
In 1920, two Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were convicted and later executed in the United States for a robbery and murder they claimed they did not commit. The trial was highly controversial, with many believing they were wrongly convicted due to their anarchist beliefs and immigrant status. Despite worldwide protests and appeals, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927.
italian immagrants accused of robbery and murder during the red scare it the 1920's