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As told to John O’Connor by Robert Meeropol the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of espionage My parents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. I was three years old when they were arrested and six when they were executed. It was the McCarthy era; the US government basically said there’s an international communist conspiracy that will destroy our way of life, and national security takes precedence. I believe…See More
Paul Harris posted a blog post‘My parents were executed’
As told to John O’Connor by Robert Meeropol the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of espionage My parents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. I was three years old when they were arrested and six when they were executed. It was the McCarthy era; the US government basically said there’s an international communist conspiracy that will destroy our way of life, and national security takes precedence. I believe…See More
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‘My parents were executed’
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:20pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
As told to John O’Connor by Robert Meeropol the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of espionage
My parents were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage. I was three years old when they were arrested and six when they were executed. It was the McCarthy era; the US government basically said there’s an international communist conspiracy that will destroy…
Continue An Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 3:40am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Los Tocayos Carlos, a book-length monograph and comprehensive website published by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, helps answer these haunting questions. Based on one of the most thorough investigations of a criminal case in U.S. history, the groundbreaking article by Columbia Law School Professor James Liebman and a team of students uncovers evidence that Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence who was executed in Texas in 1989, was…
Continue Dead Man Walking - author Sr. Helen Prejean on ABC Radio
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:47am 1 Comment 0 Likes
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/inbedwithphillip/episodes/29-dead-man-walking/
Sister Helen Prejean details the logistics and the elaborate rituals employed in Angola State Prison, Louisiana, before the electrocution of prisoners. Patrick Sonnier was executed for murder on 5 April 1984, and Sister Prejean accompanied him during the last two years of his life. She describes an…
Continue Wrongful Convictions - on ABC Radio National
Posted on March 13, 2012 at 7:39pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
What would you do if your loved one was sentenced to life in prison for a crime they didn’t commit?
Meet Betty Anne Waters from Massachusetts USA. After her brother Kenny was wrongly convicted of murder she went to law school, became a lawyer and then found the evidence that led to his exoneration after almost 20 years behind bars. Also meet Chris Ochoa. He spent 12 years in a Texas jail after being coerced into confessing to a murder he did not commit. After his release he went to…
Continue China's death row TV hit: Interviews Before Execution
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 9:13pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
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