Sacco and Vanzetti Murder Trial
Throughout the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti until decades after their deaths, there was two different of thought and stand: The first group believed that the trial was fair and that the two murders got what they deserved while the other group held the view that these two Italians anarchists were the innocent victims of political and economic interests with the intention of passing a message about the rising tide of anarchist, (Katherine Ramsland, 2014). Little attention was given to the idea that maybe there was guilty one and innocent one, not until the strong evidence from ballistics test in 1961 was provided indicating that indeed Sacco fired a fatal bullet on that April day in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
There were all the reasons to believe that the prosecution team got it right about the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial. The finding of the investigation assisted the prosecution team in conducting the trial of the two men. Some two days after the crime took place, the police happened to find a dark blue Buick with stripped off license plates in woods miles away to the south of Braintree, in West Bridgewater. Apart from the Buick, there were the smaller tracks of the second car suspected to have been stolen. Therefore, the conclusion of the police was that the Buick was probably the car which indeed was involved in the Braintree murders.
The very day of the Braintree crime, April 15, happened to be the same date that was scheduled for the deportation of an Italian anarchist named Feruccio Coacci who lived Bridgewater. While preparing for his deportation, Coacci had quit the job he was doing at Slater & Morrill. Coacci did not appear on the 15th for his deportation. The next day he called the Immigration Service reporting that his wife was sick, and he was requesting to be given a few extra days to take care of her. However, when an investigation was done by immigration and a police officer, they found that his wife was never ill, and there...
Governor Alvan T. Fuller, though massively opposed and harassed, set up a three-man panel to review the documents gathered since 1920 (UXL Newsmakers 2003). The committee conclusion was that Sacco and Vanzetti should be executed. Motions and appeals were made for the U.S. Supreme Court to hold a re-trial. But all these efforts failed. On August 22, 1927, hundreds of heavily armed policemen confronted a throng of demonstrators outside
1921 and 1927, the trial and appeals of two individuals, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,, dominated the news and were the inspirational source for many political movements throughout the world (Frankfurter). The profound and wide ranging effect that these two Italian immigrants had on society in the 1920 is remarkable and provides an excellent topic for discussion. The incident giving rise to the Sacco and Vanzetti controversy occurred on April
Civil Liberty? The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti During the height of the first so-called "red scare" in the United States from 1919 to 1920, two Italian anarchist immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were charged and tried for murder but the evidence against them was spurious (Robbins 178). Throughout what many observers termed "the trial of the century," Sacco and Vanzetti experienced prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. Consequently, these two men
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