The trial getting all the attention in 1921 was of what pair of Italian-born, U.S. anarchists who were convicted of murdering two during an armed robbery?
Hint: They appealed their conviction on the basis of conflicting evidence, recanted testimony, and the confession of an alleged participant. Future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote an article in Atlantic Monthly arguing their innocence. Despite outrage at the time (and a 1977 proclamation stating they’d been wrongly convicted), seven years after their conviction, they were executed by the electric chair.
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