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Sacco and Vanzetti (Sacco-Vanzetti trial case)

SOLVEDBraintree, Massachusetts, United States0:28

Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in 1921 of murdering a guard and a paymaster during a 1920 Massachusetts payroll robbery; despite worldwide protest over alleged bias and disputed evidence, both were executed in 1927, and in 1977 the state proclaimed their trial unfair. They were executed, but decades later the state declared their trial unfair. Send this to someone from Braintree.

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A security guard carried payroll boxes down a Braintree street. He was shot dead before he could reach his revolver. The robbers escaped in a stolen Buick. Police arrested Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with loaded guns. They were executed, but decades later the state declared their trial unfair. Where do you stand on this verdict? Every fact here is cited on casepin dot org.

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