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Nicola Sacco

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Noun1.Nicola Sacco - United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927)


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Then there was the frenzied anti-anarchist period of the early 20th century, which so deeply prejudiced the 1920s trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two anarchists accused of bank robbery and murder in Massachusetts.
Untitled (From the last letter of Nicola Sacco to his son Dante, 1927) (2008), thus referencing the 1927 Sacco-Vanzetti execution, which many believe was a politically motivated (anti-anarchist) miscarriage of justice.
Bruce Watson's Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders and the Judgment of Mankind (2007) is a penetrating and capacious account of the famous 1920 trial of the two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and their subsequent imprisonment while their lawyers made applications for rehearings.
 
 
 
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