Bartolomeo Vanzetti Case

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 Vanzetti, while unable to prove their innocence, were given an unjust and racist trial. They were guilty in the minds of the judge and jury, before even stepping into the courthouse. In 1919, a bomb went off outside the house of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Anarchist had sent the bomb through the mail to the Attorney General Palmers house. The following months were known as the red scare. Antiradicalism was running high in the United States, and thousands of immigrants with anarchist beliefs were being deported; their crime was their opinion. When two men were killed outside the Slater and Morrill Shoe
The defendants immediately made a series of appeals. The appeals were made on the basis of abysmal testimonies, prejudice against them, and a confession by an alleged participant in the robbery. Celestino Madeiros confessed to participating in the crime with the Joe Morelli gang. However, Judge Thayer denied all the appeals and refused to upset the verdict based on the confession. Because of the publicity that the case had garnered, the governor of Massachusetts, Alvan T. Fuller, created the Lowell Committee to review the case. However, like the trial before, the committee ignored evidence of innocence, and focused only validating the guiltiness of the two men. Sacco and Vanzetti were both executed by electrocution through an electric