Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti weren’t famous during most of their lives. They were, respectively, a shoemaker and a fish peddler. Their deaths, however, earned a front-page headline in the New ...

Their case is almost a century old, but the April 15-17 retrospective co-sponsored by the town and its historical society demonstrated that there continues to be interest in shoemaker Nicola Sacco and ...

SPRINGFIELD — Three Springfield area attorneys and the founder of an organization that oversees the impact of incarceration will be honored at the 87th commemoration of the executions of Nicola Sacco ...

The following is a conversation between Bartolomeo Vanzetti and W.G. Thompson the night before the former was to be executed along with his fellow anarchist Nicola Sacco. Sacco and Vanzetti were in ...

Sacco and Vanzetti were in the Death House in the State Prison at Charlestown. They fully understood that they were to die immediately after midnight. Mr. Ehrmann and I, having on their behalf ...

[THE following document, which is not printed to prolong an argument, has no bearing upon the official record of the tragic case to which it forms the natural epilogue. But in human records its ...

A century ago this week, on the evening of July 14, 1921, a verdict was announced in the murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The complex trial, held at the courthouse in Dedham, Mass ...

Today, we go back to 1927, and the final moments for two Boston suspected criminals-turned-cause célèbre whose lives were immortalized by Woody Guthrie and whose story shaped the public policy of one ...

SACCO and Vanzetti were railroaded into the electric chair! But first, a history lesson: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants executed for a 1920 payroll robbery in a Boston ...

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti leave jail at Dedham, Mass., en route to the courthouse where they are to be sentenced by Judge Webster Thayer to die in the electric chair. Bettmann / Getty ...