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Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime of murder on May 5, 1920, and indicted four months later on September 14. [37] Following Sacco and Vanzetti's indictment for murder for the Braintree robbery, Galleanists and anarchists in the United States and abroad began a campaign of violent retaliation.

August 23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder on...

Nine decades after their deaths, the Sacco and Vanzetti case remains a disturbing episode in American history. The Robbery The armed robbery that began the Sacco and Vanzetti case was remarkable for the amount of cash stolen, which was $15,000 (early reports gave an even higher estimate), and because two gunmen shot two men in broad daylight.

Sacco and Vanzetti met in the spring of 1917, soon after the Untied States had enacted a conscription law requiring all men, citizens or not, to register for the draft. In Cronaca Sovversiva, Galleani had urged his followers not to register. A group of Galleanists that included Sacco and Vanzetti departed for Mexico that summer.

Sacco and Vanzetti—themselves suspected Galleanists—had met in 1916 at a factory strike Vanzetti helped organize. Over the following years, they were united by their advocacy for workers and...

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact...

Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted at Charlestown State Prison on August 23, 1927. (Madeiros was also electrocuted that same night for the murder of a bank cashier, a crime wholly unrelated to the South Braintree robbery and murders.) Because Sacco had been on a hunger strike his body had lost salt and water, elements that conduct electricity.

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 .