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...following article on the Sacco and Vanzetti ease was written for the Crimson by Professor W. E. Hocking, '01 of the University Philosophy Department...
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...
...part I am not satisfied: I feel impelled to acknowledge that I believe Sacco and Vanzetti as innocent of that murder...
...situation that men may be sent to their death in Massachusetts because the courts refuse to hear relevant evidence. The excluded evidence in this case is such, I verily believe, as would convince four men out of five, if they could, hear it with unblassed minds, that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing whatever to do with the Braintree murder...
...Sacco and Vanzetti are executed, innocent of anything more than being radicals, the injustice done them will be of comparitively slight moment. Of far greater importance is the establishment of a precedent allowing political, religious, and social beliefs to enter into the decisions of criminal courts. And at such a price the dignity of the courts of Massachusetts is not worth saving...