Were They Really Behind the Murders?
Something doesn’t seem to add up here. Many people doubted the fact that Sacco and Vanzetti had murdered the two men in question. For starters, neither of them had a criminal track record.
Sacco and Vanzetti in Dedham with their lawyers. Photo By Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
What’s more, a known criminal had even confessed to the stated crime! The shoemaker and the fish peddler submitted appeal after appeal, all of which were ultimately rejected. They were finally sentenced to death in 1927. But did they commit the crime?