shaped the 1920’s‚ and that includes the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two were tried for killing a paymaster and his bodyguard. They were sentenced to the death penalty for a crime that their involvement in was questionable. Many people protested to their sentence. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s court sentence sparked a large debate through the nation that continues today as to whether it was justifiable or not. Nicola Sacco worked a steady job at a shoe factory in Stoughton
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Witnesses reported that both of these men were Italian’s. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were with two other men while they went to a garage to claim a car that local police connected with the crime. The police then arrested them‚ due to their being “suspicious characters.” This became one of the most controversial cases in American history. Sacco and Vanzetti were Anarchists that feared the Department of Justice. In July 1921‚ Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty after the trial in Dedham‚ Massachusetts
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migrating into the US. During the 1920s immigrants from specific areas in the world were not openly received. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were both Italian immigrants who were treated unjustly for their beliefs. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists who were executed for the murder of a paymaster and his guard that took place in Massachusetts in 1927 (“Sacco-Vanzetti Case facts”). During Sacco and Vanzetti’s trial‚ feelings towards immigrants were negative thus affecting
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The murder case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is one of the most discriminatory and controversial trials to prevail throughout the history of Massachusetts’ courts. On July 14th‚ 1921‚ Sacco and Vanzetti were wrongfully found guilty of first degree murder; not because there was ample evidence suggesting they were guilty‚ but because of their political beliefs. When Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested in 1920 (“The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial: A Chronology” p.2) many nations were
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian born anarchists living in the United States. The jury convicted and sentenced to death‚ both Sacco and Vanzetti‚ for the murder of a guard‚ and a paymaster‚ during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company. Nicola Sacco was a shoe operative‚ and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was a fish peddler‚ ordinary men with differing beliefs from the general public. The jury charged and convicted them of murder for their heritage and beliefs. Sacco and
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cause and rebel against the government‚ while creating a society that stands souly on the individual anarchist in it. Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants‚ and proclaimed anarchists‚ put on trial for allegedly robbing and murdering a pay clerk and a security guard‚ that were bringing pay for workers from the bank. Saco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death. Sacco and Vanzetti were believed to become anarchists based on there strong opposition to war. They believed that it was suppose to be
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In recent discussions of Sacco and Vanzetti‚ a controversial issue has been whether or not the two men are innocent or guilty. On the one hand‚ some argue that they are innocent. From this perspective‚ there was little evidence to support the verdict. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that they were guilty. From this perspective‚ there are letters that were recently released that link them to the crime. In the words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti‚ “I am convinced that the human history has yet
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The trail of Sacco and Vanzetti is the quintessential example of corruption in a court of law. The evidence presented at the time of the trial‚ was not significant enough. This was an instance in which anti-labor and anti-immigrant sentiment carried the day‚ trampling every imaginable concept of justice. For a generation of American‚ the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions about their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly spread thought the
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti had many faces in society such as Italian immigrant‚ fish seller‚ loving husband and father. He were a member of an extremely dangerous anarchist group in America. In 1920‚ Bartolomeo Vanzetti and his friend Nicola Sacco were arrested for payroll and murder in Braintree‚ Massachusetts. They were referred as “those anarchist bastards.” Judge Thayer hated anarchist. He heavily prejudiced against Italians. Eventually‚ Vanzetti and Sacco were found guilty of murder. The trials were
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In a prominent quote stated by Bartolomeo Vanzetti after being sentenced to death said‚ “The jury were hating us because we were against the war‚ and the jury don’t know that it makes any difference between a man that is against the war because he believes that the war is unjust‚ because he hate no country‚ because he is a cosmopolitan‚ and a man that is against the war because he is in favor of the other country that fights against the country in which he is‚ and therefore a spy‚ an enemy‚ and he
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