Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations...
Sacco and Vanzetti are sentenced to die. The judicical process has finished its work. The jury has spoken; the judge has spoken; the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth has spoken. In the course of the law of Massachusetts, there is nothing more to be done...
...COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations...
...COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations...
...written, one must at least be forced to admit that the persistent efforts to get a new trial for these defendants need not be regarded in the light of an effort to justify or excuse their "red" radicalism, or to bring the administration of justice in the Commonwealth into contempt; but rather as an effort to see that all the safeguards are employed with the judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard...