Compare And Contrast Sacco And Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti Sacco and Vanzetti were both Italian anarchists. They were put on trial in the 1920ś for Anarchy is an absence of government, to be an anarchist means to bring about anarchy and most likely not believe in government. Both of these men were accused of murder. Protests were held for the two of them to make an attempt to show their innocence, this brought anarchy and chaos to the country during the red scare. In the 1920ś Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were accused of murdering a paymaster and his guard after picking up a car that police claimed was connected with the crime from a garage. Neither of them were ever proven guilty of anything, and neither had a previous crime record, yet they were sentenced to death by

Although this case was taken all the way up to the supreme court. Their judge, Judge Webster Thayer was in charge of this case and he was unfair and cruel. He was extremely prejudiced and already had something against the men because they were immigrants and anarchists. He made multiple comments about and towards the men. He said ¨This man although he may not have commited the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions.¨ (Felix Frankfurter 1) This looked very bad for them because the red scare had people frightened of immigrants. Most of the main points made against Sacco and Vanzetti were disproven. The men were on trial more for their political beliefs and the fact that they were immigrants more than

While this does not truthfully prove him guilty, it was his gun and it can be used as reasoning for the execution. It does not prove him guilty because although he was the owner of the weapon it does not mean he was the one who shot them. It could have been Vanzetti as well. In 1977 the governor of Massachusetts said himself that Sacco and Vanzetti were treated unfairly. Also saying nothing bad should be said about the men. The Governor at the time of the trial felt differently and denied the men any type of leniency. The men had few friends during this trial but many foes. Sacco and Vanzetti were both executed on the 23rd of August. Although they were never proven guilty, and almost every point made against them was disproven, they were found guilty of murdering a guard, and paymaster for a shoe company in Braintree Massachusetts. Many protests for the men were held to make an attempt to show their innocence to the world, but nothing worked. The red scare and the men's backgrounds, and their beliefs as anarchists had the turnout of the trial decided from the