On August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted in Charlestown State Prison. (Madeiros was also executed that same night for the murder of a bank cashier, a crime completely unrelated to the heist and killings in South Braintree.).
What was the charge against Sacco and Vanzetti?
- At the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree, Sacco and Vanzetti are accused of murder and robbery. Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and payroll clerk Frederick Parmenter were both shot to death and robbed of more than $15,000 in cash on the afternoon of April 15, 1920.
- Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927, despite several appeals and the advice of a special advisory board working for the governor of Massachusetts. The execution spurred protests against labor militancy, immigration restrictions, Italian American oppression, and extreme political ideologies all throughout the world.
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