Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were a shoemaker and a fish peddler whose executions on August 23rd, 1927 made front-page news in the popular newspaper, The New York Times.
Sacco and Vanzetti after they have been arrested. Photo By Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
On May 5th, 1920, these two men were arrested under suspicion of the murders of a shoe factory paymaster and his friend. The evidence against the two accused was circumstantial, but this did not stop the jury from convicting Sacco and Vanzetti of murder.