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Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco, second from right foreground, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, second from left foreground, stand in handcuffs with unidentified escorts in Massachusetts around 1927. Sacco and Vanzetti, arrested in 1920, were accused of killing a paymaster and guard in Braintree, and stealing about $16,000. Many believed they were convicted because of their anarchistic beliefs. Their scheduled execution was protested by ordinary and prominent men and women. The city of Boston will usea bronze sculpture of Sacco and Vanzetti to say the two men, executed 70 years ago, did not get a fair trial, said Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Tuesday, August 19, 1997. On the anniversary of the executions, Saturday, August 23, 1997, Menino will commission the sculpture which is to be in place by the year 2000, but it has not been decided where. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/STR) ======