Sacco and Vanzetti

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 nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. Many believed the two Italians did not receive a fair trial because of the anti-immigrant and anti-radical ideals of the era, I would fully agree. The trail was not only unfair because of anti-immigrant and anti-radical ideals but also because of the evidential discovery.
It all started with a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920. The recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia scared many Americans. There came a case of two Italian immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti. Who were arrested for an armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in which a guard and a paymaster were killed. They were found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. The newly formed American Civil Liberties Union and labor organizations publicized the fact that there was no hard evidence against the two immigrants. The Judge at their trial was openly prejudiced against the Italians. Sacco and Vanzetti admitted to being radicals in their political beliefs but proclaimed their innocence of the crime. The case received worldwide attention. “But what good is the evidence and what good is the argument? They are determined to kill us regardless of evidence, of law, of decency, of everything. If they give us a delay tonight, it will only mean they will kill us next week. Let us