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Sacco and Vanzetti went on trial for their lives on May 31, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, for the Braintree robbery and murders. Webster Thayer again presided; he had asked to be assigned to the trial. Katzmann again prosecuted for the State.
Sacco and Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts (1921–27) that resulted in their executions. Many people felt that the trial had been unfair and that the two men had been convicted for their radical anarchist beliefs.
For six years, starting in 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti watched from death row as writers argued for their freedom, politicians debated their case, and radicals held protests...
A Norfolk County grand jury indicted Sacco and Vanzetti for the Braintree robbery and murders on September 11, 1920. The trial began in the Dedham courthouse on May 31, 1921. Superior Court Judge Webster Thayer presided.
Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder on August 23, 1927. On April 15, 1920, a ...
On May 5, 1920, the two were arrested in connection with the murders of two other men, a shoe-factory paymaster and the man who had been escorting him while he transported about $15,700 in...
Table of Contents for the law library, The Case of Sacco & Vanzetti. Justice on Trial ; The Red Scare of 1919–1920 ; The crime scene ; Investigation and arrest ; Who were Sacco & Vanzetti? The trial ; The setting ; The evidence ; Cross-examination of the defendants ; Judge Thayer's charge to the jury ; Motions for a new trial
Sacco and Vanzetti each offered evidence of an alibi. Sacco testified that on April 15, 1920, he had taken the day off from work and traveled to Boston to request a passport from the Italian consulate. Several witnesses testified that they saw Sacco en route to Boston or in Boston.
Sacco and Vanzetti trial were convicted of murder on July 14, 1921. In June 1927, responding to public criticism of the trial and verdict, a committee was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to review the trial’s fairness.
The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti for the South Braintree murders was held in Dedham, Massachusetts, from May 31 to July 14, 1921. Police believed that Sacco was one of the gunmen and that Vanzetti had been one of the three men seen in the getaway car.