In the United States, Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed. Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (Torremaggiore, April 22, 1891 – Charlestown, August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Villafalletto, June 11, 1888 – Charlestown, August 23, 1927) were two Italian anarchists. They were charged with the murder of an accountant and a guard at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory. Their guilt was widely questioned even at the time of the trial; the confession of Puerto Rican prisoner Celestino Madeiros, which exonerated the two, was of no avail. In 1977, Michael Dukakis, governor of the state of Massachusetts, officially acknowledged the errors committed in the trial and completely rehabilitated the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco was a shoe factory worker, while Vanzetti—whom his friends called Trumlin—ran a fishmonger. They were executed by electric chair on August 23, 1927, at Charlestown Penitentiary, near Dedham.
