Monday, August 22, 1927 More rain tonight and tomorrow too by the looks. Luncheon today at the Quinnipiac Club. Worked all day selecting the new lines of wall papers. Nicola Saceo and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted tonight at midnight for the murder of two men seven years ago. Great pressure had been brought to bear on the courts and the governor of Massachusetts to save these men and every effort was made to have them given life sentence to no avail. All the courts found them guilty. --- (When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied a retrial for Saceo and Vanzetti, they stated "It is not imperative that a new trial be granted even though evidence is newly discovered and, if presented to a jury, would justify a different verdict." New evidence included another person who confessed to the crime. By 1939, this case resulted in a massive reform of the Supreme Judicial Court requiring them to review all death penalty cases. The death penalty was later banned in Massachusetts in 1984.) [Prev](1927_08_21.md) - [Next](1927_08_23.md) <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1FoyYcafI5QAl3uCi-wuv6WcXdIfhNPiD">