What Was The Sacoo-Vanzetti Case In 1920s USA?

Sacoo and Venzetti were immigrants from Italy, living in Massachusetts. Neither spoke English well. Both were anarchists.

On 5th May 1920, they were arrested and charged with a wages robbery in which two guards were shot dead. Four kinds of evidence were used against Sacco and Vanzetti in their trial.

1) Both were carrying loaded guns when arrested
2) The Bullets in Sacoo's gun were the same size as those which killed the guards
3) Sacco had leaflets in his pocket advertising an anarchist meeting when he was arrested
4) Sixty-one eyewitnesses of the wages robbery identified Sacco and Vanzetti as the killers.

The evidence in defence of them was that 107 witnesses swore to seeing them at the same time of the murders elsewhere. Although the prosecution evidence was unreliable, the judge found them guilty and sentenced them to death despite many protests in Sacco's and Vanzetti's support. They were executed by the electric chair on 24 August 1927.

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