Julius And Ethel Rosenberg Trial

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Not everyone agreed that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were traitors to the United States. The couple continued to plead innocence right until they demise. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a loving family raising two sons. Their trial was very controversial because of the sentencing they received. One group of people thought they should be sentenced to death right away and one group thought that they were victims. Supporters of Julies and Ethel Rosenberg held signs in support of their innocence and wrote letters to the White House for their release.1 Under the Espionage Act, they were the only two people to ever be sentenced to death. “Jean-Paul Sartre called the sentence “a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation.”1 David

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