Who are Sacco and Vanzetti and why are they important?
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who were convicted of killing two police officers during a riot at the old Plymouth Rope works. They were suspected of being ‘anarchists’ and quickly found guilty of murder and just as quickly executed. There was a lot of controversy during their trial and both always claimed to be innocent. They were executed anyways. In the mid 1980s Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis reviewed the evidence against them and gave them a pardon, posthumously. Another case of wrongful execution on the part of the judicial system.
