Three weeks later, Italian immigrants and known anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were accused and arrested for the crime, despite the little evidence against them. Following, a seven-week trial, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted, on circumstancial evidence, of murder and sentenced to death.
Today there is still much controversy surrounding their convictions.
Click here to read two analyses of the social background leading up to the trial, and how it possibly affected the trial's outcome. We hope to further present to you in this site an introduction to the controversial events of Sacco and Vanzetti's actual trial. Justice, in America, is said to be blind. While we can not solve the controversy for you, we hope to at least present you with an in-depth analysis of the trial so you may begin to come to your own conclusions. Click here to read two analyses on the actual controversial events of the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.