On this day in 1927 80 years ago, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants for the murder of two payroll clerks that the men insisted they didn't commit. The executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti were considered a travesty. A new book and documentary draw parallels to our feelings about immigration then and now.
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