Rosenberg+tp

The Rosenberg Trial 1951 Julias and Ethal Rosenberg were tried and convicted on the espinage (however you spell it) and then were the first couple to be sent to the electric chair. They were thought to be Soviet spies by those investigating them. Their case took over two years to finally bring to a close, and when it did it was an emotional roller coaster until the end. After two years four supreme court justices were willing to allow their executions, but it takes five. The fifth finally concented and on June 19, 1953 Julius and Ethal were executed soon after eight PM. For decades after there were lingering doubts about Julius' guilt, but those doubts were soon dispersed by the release of the Venona cables and other information following the fall of the Soviet Union. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_ACCT.HTM