workingclasshistory:On this day, 23 August 1927 in the US, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bot
workingclasshistory:On this day, 23 August 1927 in the US, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both anarchist workers and Italian immigrants, were executed by electric chair for a murder which neither committed - the real perpetrator had even admitted the crime. After sentencing them to death, the judge boasted to a colleague: “Did you see what I did with those anarchistic bastards the other day.” However Vanzetti had no regrets: “I would not wish to a dog or to a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth, I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I am an Italian and indeed I am an Italian…if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.” This is a short history of this grave miscarriage of justice: https://ift.tt/2K5rT5S https://ift.tt/2w72OlS -- source link