Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Nicola Sacco and Bartolome Vanzetti were two italian immigrants who were arrested for allegedly robbing and murdering two employees at a shoe factory in Massachusetts. Sacco owned a gun similar to the weapon used to murder the two employees. Evidence against them was controversial, but because they were immigrants and anarchists the jury found them guilty on July 14, 1921. It took six years of failed appeals for the two to be executed on August 23, 1927.