Boston Mayor Thomas Menino placed a statue of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—two professed anarchists executed for their part in a 1920 robbery-murder in southeastern Massachusetts—in front of the city's public library. Previously in 1977, on the 50th anniversary of the pair's execution, governor Michael Dukakis issued an official apology for the execution, a decision that was promptly condemned in a vote of the state senate.

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