Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are members of the workers' rights movement, anarchist workers, immigrants from Italy who lived in the United States.
They became widely known after in 1920 in the USA they were charged with the murder of a cashier and two guards of a shoe factory in South Braintree. At the trials held in the city of Plymouth, on July 14, 1921, the jury, ignoring the weak evidence base of the prosecution and a number of testimonies that spoke in favor of the accused, pronounced a verdict on the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti, and sentenced them to death. All petitions were rejected by the judicial authorities of the state of Massachusetts. On August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted. The trial and the subsequent attempts to get the case reviewed caused a wide resonance in the world. Many people were convinced of the innocence of those executed, and this process became for them a symbol of lawlessness and political repression.
