The Sacco and Vanzetti Case

The Sacco and Vanzetti Case. 

1. During the Red Scare, two Italian anarchists called Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and accused of armed robbery on a shoe factory, during which two people were killed.
2. From the beginning, most people were against them as they were immigrants and had obscure political ideas.
3. Although there were 67 witnesses that said they had seen them, the defence had 107 witnesses alleging they had seen them somewhere else when the crime was committed. 
4. A man named Celestino Maderios later admitted that he had committed the crime, yet Sacco and Vanzetti still lost their appeal.
5. There were protests by people claiming that it was a miscarriage of justice, arguing that the judge was prejudiced against the pair (which he was). But they were still executed in 1927.
6. This was an important example of American intolerance in the 1920s.