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Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born American anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and executed via electrocution in the American state of Massachusetts, although there was popular doubt regarding their guilt, stirred in part by Upton Sinclair's novel Boston.
Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of States dollar|$" target="_blank" >*15,766.51 from the factory's payroll on April 15, 1920.
Both Sacco and Vanzetti had alibis, but they were the only people accused of the crime. As a result of what many historians feel was a blatant disregard for political civil liberties, and a strong anti-Italian prejudice, Sacco and Vanzetti were denied a retrial. Judge Webster Thayer, who heard the case, allegedly described the two as "anarchist bastards".
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The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti - Lengthy report by Felix Frankfurter, written in March, 1927.
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