On this day in Anarchist History, August 23rd 1927, Italian-American Immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed by electric chair near Boston, Massachusetts for allegedly robbing a factory and murdering a security guard and the paymaster 7 years earlier. By all accounts their trial was a sham. They were found guilty even after somebody else confessed to the crimes. Their funeral was attended by 10,000 people and the wreath over their casket read, “Waiting for the hour of venge

Sacco and Vanzetti