Crime
The 1927 Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: Justice Denied or Justice Served?
Justice Denied or Justice Served? A Nation Divided by Ideology, Identity, and Fear On August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—two Italian immigrants and self-proclaimed anarchists—were executed by electric chair in Charlestown State Prison, Massachusetts. Their deaths were the climax of one of the most controversial