Sacco And Vanzetti Case Analysis

The twentieth century is the home of many significant events. A few of these events are WWl and WWll, women’s right to vote, and the great depression. What also happened during this period was one of the most controversial trials in American history. This case is controversial because two Italians (Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), were convicted of first-degree murder. Thus, both Italians were executed in the electric chair. In addition, the trial lasted almost a decade. However, many people believed that the ones who were guilty of this crime were the Morelli gang. According to “Sacco and Vanzetti (DVD),” “The case of the century divided America in Half” (Robbins). America was divided into three groups, in the first group were

Therefore, there was direct and circumstantial evidence in the case. On one hand, the researcher Mark Winston argues how the relatives and friends of Sacco and Vanzetti testified that both Italians were everywhere, but in the scene crime (Winston). The numerous of different testimonies from the Italians relatives and friends helped the court to easily realize that they all were lying. On the other hand, Quinncannon states that some witnesses had direct evidence, “there were people like Sacco’s boss, George Kelley, who was an actual witness to the crime. Sacco’s boss did not want to get involved with the trial; however, he ended up testifying against Sacco” (Quinncannon). Even though there were numerous of witnesses, the police kept looking for new witnesses that would not change their story in the trial. They wanted to find more witnesses like George Kelley. However, when Sacco and Vanzetti were getting arrested they did not know why the police wanted them to be behind bars. Thus, the Italians received a trial in which just like their loved ones; they lied about where they were when they unlawful act happened. This made them looked more suspicious with a guilty conscience (Agnes Jr.). Even though Sacco and Vanzetti had a clean background history, it was very suspicious of how their bank account went from zero to 2,800 immediately after the crime scene. There is no way that a family guy (Sacco), and a fish seller (Vanzetti) would get this amount of money in a matter of