Nearly a century ago, two Boston Italian immigrants were executed in a case that fueled global protests and long-lasting conversations about legal reform. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sent to the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison at midnight on Aug. 23, 1927.
The case came to trial in 1921, when Sacco and Vanzetti were accused and convicted of killing two men in Braintree and stealing $15,000 in cash. Bruce Watson, author of "Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind," said the men’s six years of fighting for justice attracted significant attention.
