In 1953: The execution the government knew was wrong
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison on June 19, 1953 — the first U.S. civilians put to death for espionage during peacetime — after a deeply controversial conviction for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
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