Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

... worldwide campaign for mercy failed, and the Rosenbergs were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Ethel became the first woman executed by the U.S. government since In the years after the Rosenbergs' executions, ...



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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

(respectively, born May 12, 1918, New York, New York, U.S.-died June 19, 1953, Ossining, New York; born September 28, 1915, New York City-died June 19, 1953, Ossining), the first American civilians to be executed for espionage and the first to suffer ...



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