The question whether Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti received a fair trial is still in dispute today. Many people during the time of the case believed that the men were “executed on murder based on doubtful ballistic evidence” because of the hostility towards immigrants due to the Red Scare and World War 1 (“Perfect Suspects, Unfair Trials”). The evidence provided during the trial showed that the men were found guilty due to the fact that they were in anarchist groups and were active members of multiple militant groups. Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of intense xenophobia because of being Italian immigrants. This gave the courts the ability to declare a verdict on their ethnicity; therefore, we now have laws to protect the defendant from …show more content…
About three weeks later, Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime” (“Digital History”). This caused major problems because when placed in front of the courts, “ Many believed that they were singled out due to being Italian immigrants and had dedicated their lives to fighting for the emancipation of the working class” which was common because many Italians were escaping homeland, and moving to the United States during the 1920s (Linder). During the presentation of this evidence, it was shown that no one had full proof that these men shot and killed Parmenter and Berardelli, yet, they were still …show more content…
The men were militant disciples of “Luigi Galleani, an anarchist who advocated revolutionary violence, including bombing and assassination” (“Sacco and Vanzetti; Executed”). Luigi Galleani was a man who participated in multiple bombing and assassinations to take out people who he believed were class enemies. Galleani described his class enemies as a person or social group(s) who did not have the same communist views has him or his followers (“Sacco and Vanzetti;