Sacco And Vanzetti Analysis

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 commits any crime in the country in which he is in behalf of the other country in order to serve the other country”. On April 15 1920, the owner of the shoe company that was robbed and a security guard were killed in an active armed robbery. Nicola
In 1912 Sacco and Vanzetti “joined the Cronaca Sovversiva group led by Luigi Galleani the most famous anarchist” (Deotto). In the early 1920's America developed a fear of communism and radical politics in which Sacco and Vanzetti both had different views for the influences of America. “Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italian immigrants and avowed anarchist who advocated the violent overthrow of capitalism.” This meant that their accusation of committing the crime was a lot higher than non-anarchist Americans. Once Sacco and Vanzetti had been arrested they had no idea why. “Sacco and Vanzetti believed they had been arrested because they were anarchist” (Bortman 14). They believed one of their members of the gang had snitched them out and knew that the police was searching for suspects for the bombing that had happened a few days before their arrest which left thirty eight people dead, the perpetrators were never identified but they believed anarchist had apart of the bombing. The judge that was assigned to their case was Judge Webster who was against anarchist and during the trail kept being up their radical political beliefs. Judge Webster also referred the accused as “anarchistic bastards” which brought a political issue into the trail (Deotto). This meant Judge Webster seemed to care more about their political beliefs. Which lead to the rejection of their chance of a second
Fuller for a second try on looking into the trail, and on June 1st,1927 "Governer Fuller ordered another inquiry to advise him on the clemency request of the two anarchist"(History.com). Governer Fuller then later viewed the evidence again and followed the Lowell Committee recommendation on the trail which was to be a fair trial. On July 27, "the Lowell Committee declared that the trail and appeals process had been fair and advised against clemency"(Encyclopedia.com). At that point Governer Fuller had rejected to delay their execution and any second grant of clemency. Many people had thought that Governer Fuller had every little effort to learn about the truth, but Heywood Broun wrote "Alvan T. Fuller never had any intention in all his investigation... The justice of the business was not his concern. He hoped to make it respectable"(Spartacus). People thought Governer Fuller was ready to let this case drop. Two years before in 1925 Celestino Madeiros had confessed of being a "member of the gang who killed Fredrick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli"(Spartacus). Madeiros while confessing also named out other gang member names who took apart of the robbery. The authorities refused to investigate the confession made even though the Morelli brothers were well known criminals in Massachusetts. Lastly this lead to their