Sacco And Vanzetti Case. In the end, the sacco and vanzetti case is a troubling one no matter where you stand on things. In 1920, as the italian anarchist movement was trying to regroup, andrea salsedo, a comrade of sacco and vanzetti, was detained and, while in custody of the department of justice, hurled to his death.

Sacco and vanzetti in mexico sacco and vanzetti met in the spring of 1917, soon after the untied states had enacted a conscription law requiring all men, citizens or not, to register for the draft. The trial lasted nearly seven weeks, and on july 14, 1921, sacco and vanzetti were found guilty of murder in the first degree. Nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti, italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence.