Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Funeral. The Defense Committee denied a report that it was planning to take the embalmed bodies on an agitating tour of U. S. industrial centers. A state law required that the bodies be burned or buried before sunset the Friday following Execution Tuesday. Boston health officials extended the time to...
The Fascist journals of Italy expressed matter-of-fact approval, tinged with scorn for the inefficiency which delayed the execution for seven years.
The day after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline:
Execution. Guilty or not, justly or not, Nicola Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders- which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass., in...
WITNESSES OF EXECUTION BEGIN TO ARRIVE