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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: People convicted of murder by Massachusetts, People murdered in Massachusetts, Sacco and Vanzetti, Stephen Flemmi, Clarence Richeson, Neil Entwistle, Jacob D. Robida, Willie Horton, Boston Strangler, Washington Goode, Wayne Lo, Edward G. Connors, James O'Toole, Murder of Deanna Cremin, Johnny Martorano, Charles Stuart, William S. O'Sullivan, Sinedu Tadesse, Jesse Pomeroy, John Geoghan, George Nassar, Alexandra Zapp, J. J. Jameson, Mary Joe Frug, Chris Bender, Paul McGonagle, Murder of Molly Bish, New Bedford Highway Killer, James McLean, Joseph Druce, Jason Fairbanks, Wakefield massacre, Adolfo Bruno, Larry McLean, Murder of Yngve Raustein, Donald Killeen, Philip Bellino and Edward Gertson, Holly Piirainen, James Batchelder, John Newcomen, Cid Ricketts Sumner, Christopher McCowen, Enrico Tameleo, Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin, Christa Worthington, Andrew Von Etter, Tiffany Moore, Louis B. Allyn, Robert Kosilek, Edward McLaughlin, Jack Landau, Rita Hester. Excerpt: Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891-August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888-August 23, 1927) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927. There is a highly politicized dispute over their guilt or innocence, as well as whether or not the trials were fair. The dispute focuses on small details and contradictory evidence. As a result, historians have not reached a consensus. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the murders of Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company, on Pearl Street in Braintree, Massachusetts during the afternoon of April 15, 1920. Vanzetti was further charged with the t...