Sacco and Vanzetti, for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard divided a nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through court after court, appeal after appeal to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. As the end drew near, in August 1927, hundreds of thousands of people from Boston and New York to London and Buenos Aires protested of what they perceived to be a massive miscarriage of justice.
One quiet afternoon, paymaster Frederick Parmenter and his guard, Alessandro Beradelli were carrying two metal boxes full of 15,000 dollars. They were stopped by two men, one of them quickly shot Berardelli several times. After killing the man and his guard, the assailants hopped into a getaway car that just pulled up and drove away as dozens of witnesses watched.…show more content… In panic, the police searched for two anarchist Italian immigrants to blame the murder on. Twenty days later, on May 5, 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested while picking up a car connected with the murder. The two men were tried and found guilty under circumstantial evidence. There was obvious proof that witnesses were lying and that Sacco and Vanzetti could not have committed the murders, but because the trial was filled with such hatred toward the foreign radicals, they were sentenced to death. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were the victims of an unfair trial based upon their background and