Sacco and Vanzetti Put to Death Early This Morning
Walk to Death Calmly
Sacco Cries 'Long Live Anarchy; Vanzetti Insists on His Innocence
From a Staff Correspondent of THE NEW YORK TIMES
Charlestown State Prison, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 23 - Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti died in the electric chair early this morning, carrying out the
sentence imposed on them for the South Braintree murders of April 15, 1920.
To the last they protested their innocence, and the efforts of many who believed
them guiltless proved futile, although they fought a legal and extra legal battle
unprecedented in the history of American jurisprudence.
With them died Celestino F. Madeiros, the young Portuguese, who won seven
respites when he "confessed" that he was present at the time of the South
Braintree murder and that Sacco and Vanzetti were not with him. He died for the
murder of a bank cashier.
Sacco cried, "Long live anarchy," as the prison guards strapped him into the chair
and applied the electrodes. He added a plea that his family be cared for.
Vanzetti at the last made a short address, declaring his innocence.
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Which of the following quotes from the excerpt best shows that Warden William Hendry believed Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent?
"To the last they protested their innocence, and the efforts of many who believed them guiltless proved tuble...
"Vanzetti at the last made a short address, declaring his innocence."
"The Warden was barely able to pronounce above a whisper the solemn formula required by law. Under the law I now pronounce you dead, the sentence of
the court having been legally carried out."
None of these choices are correct, he believed they were guilty