The Sisters of Saint Joseph held a memorial ceremony on the 90th anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at the Sinai Temple on Wednesday evening.

Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a South Braintree business in 1920, were executed by electric chair on Aug. 23, 1927 at Charlestown State Prison. In 1977, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation stating the pair had been unfairly tried and convicted and that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names."