Comparing The Death Of Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Chapter 11, Saco and Vanzetti, in After the Fact begins with a story of an armed robbery in a bank and an armed robbery and murder to a man on the side of the road in Massachusetts during the time of the nativist mood in America. The Braintree and Bridgewater crimes, in 1919 and 1920, seemed to show a patterned and drew attention to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists, where were soon arrested for the crimes. After a long trial, suspicious evidence and six years of appeals the two were convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. Moving on in the chapter we are introduced to another story, around the same time as the previous one, of employers going on strike and radicals creating an uprising in the labor industries.

After being accused they were being hanged and killed for no reason like the holocaust

Facts: Defendants were arrested after being charged. They were charged in a 29 count indictment alleging various RICO violations. These included mail and wire fraud offenses, extortion, and criminal gambling violations. At Ds arraignment, government moved to have them detained based on the Bail Reform Act of 1984. The government moved on the grounds that no condition of release would keep the safety of the public.Government made a detailed progger of evidence. This was based mostly on conversations intercepted by court ordered wiretap that found the two Ds had been part of wide-ranging conspiracies. Salerno opposed the motion and challenged the credibility of it and the government’s witness. D offered testimonies of many witnesses and a letter

3. Details about the verdict of this person. What was the verdict? What evidence was used in the trial? Any other interesting details you can find out about the trial. Include at least 1 photo related to the verdict.

How does what happened to Sacco and Vanzetti show what life was like during the Red Scare?

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti “two obscure Italian aliens, became the focal point of one of the most controversial episodes in American history”;(ATF CH11p257) when they were arrested on May 5, 1920 for “suspicious character” and connection with the Slater Morrill Shoe Company robbery. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested carrying hunting weapons and extra ammunition on the way to pick up Mike Boba’s car, which was believed to have connected them to robbery of the Slater Morrill Shoe Company that had occurred on April 15, 1920. Sacco and Vanzetti’s actions depicted “the kind of foreign menace American nativist most feared” (ATF chapter 11p 270), making them prime suspects for the robbery. However the lack of evidence that existed to convict Sacco and Vanzetti lead to the exposure of the fault lines that existed

The community’s response became more agitated as the trials continued. Those who confessed were neither tried nor sentenced. (LaPlante 138) The number of confessions only supported the girls’ accusations allowing them more credibility. Those who claimed to be innocent were hung following their trial or for one man tortured.

In this paper I will be answering, “Many people believed that justice had been served when Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede were arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. Italy’s high court recently reversed the convictions of Amanda and Raffaelle. After reading the books, which court do you think got it right—the lower trial court with the guilty verdict or the high court with the not guilty verdict? Why?” I will provide at least three examples, with at least one example coming from each book, to support my response. The books “Honor bound” and “Murder in Italy” talk about the Amanda Knox trial. Amanda’s roommate Meredith Kercher, was found murdered in their home leaving the main suspects to be Amanda and her boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito.

mysteries which occurred in 1953 was the electrocution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg under the Espionage Act. They were convicted for giving the secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The anti-communist sentiment that characterized the Cold War and McCarthyism led to their trial and execution. Even though there is some evidence of the Rosenbergs' guilt, numerous facts which were discovered after the death of Ethel and Julius argue more convincingly that they were innocent victims of Cold War hysteria.

The boys went on trial in Scottsboro, Alabama, and were named the Scottsboro Boys. The first trial, they were all found guilty and sentenced to death. In trial two, they were again found

After the murder, the two men caught a ride on a local bus where they

of a VC suspect. Without trial, he was sentenced to death, and within minutes was shot in

About eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy. They found evidence that shows that one of the anarchists could have built the bomb. The evidence also shows that none of them could have thrown the bomb. Seven of the eight were found guilty and were sentenced to death and one of them were sentenced to fifteen years in prison. One of the three that were sentenced to death committed suicide because they would rather be dead than to go to jail.

At the beginning of the century, Americans were disappointed with the outcome of the European war. This resulted them to go against all things foreign, which included racial political ideas and immigrants. The country had to face many decisions made by communists, which created the Red Scare. The Red Scare was a spread of the fear of communism. One of the most important cases involving the Red Scare was the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were Italian, atheists, conscientious objectors, and radicals, were both accused of the murder of a paymaster and his guard at South Braintree, Massachusetts. They were both holding revolvers and told lies to the judge and court, but the flaws in evidence proved they were not guilty. “Many critics believed that the accused had been found guilty of radicalism rather than murder- that they were martyrs in the ‘class struggle’” (Race and Ethnicity Packet). Their conviction illustrated the unfairness of the trial based on the beliefs and race. The American jury and judge for the trial was

Later in 1966, Alfred P. Bello, a well-known criminal and a suspect himself, gave the police a signed statement claiming he saw Carter and Artis at the murder scene. Carter and Artis were arrested and later indicted for the triple murders. An all-white jury convicted Carter and Artis. The prosecutor wanted them to receive the death penalty, but the jury recommended mercy. They were sentenced to three life terms.