Executed
Sacco
Sacco was executed in Massachusetts, together with Vanzetti. The Springfield Weekly Republican, in an editorial published on February 16, 1928, said that doubt about their guilt had not been dispelled by the courts or by the governor's special commission. The paper called the execution a terrible disfigurement of the commonwealth.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. An editorial says doubt about their guilt was never dispelled by the courts or the governor's special commission, and calls the execution a terrible disfigurement of the commonwealth.
Reported by: newspaper editorial.