On this day, August 23: The unjust execution of Sacco and Vancetti that inspired the world (and reached Easter!)

On this day in 1927, in Boston, United States, the Italian immigrants Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sit in the electric chair, in an unjust judicial system that brought mobilization and was an inspiration for the Arts, with reactionary songs even reaching Greece and indeed … in the midst of a Junta (probably by mistake)! The two Italian immigrants and ideological anarchists Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were accused of committing murder during a shoe factory robbery. Despite the fact that they themselves strongly denied any involvement in the case and above all that there was no incontrovertible evidence in favor of their guilt, the court sentenced them to death, in a trial that was deeply influenced by the prejudices of the time, such as nationalism, racist and anti-communist perceptions. The evidence that the Court then considered sufficient to judge them guilty were mainly some recognitions by the witnesses – who, however, had the defendants in question as the only suspects – the carrying of weapons […]
Source: News Beast

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