{"id":523,"date":"2013-06-19T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:08:45","slug":"rosenbergs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/rosenbergs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Penalty: 60 Years After the Rosenbergs&#8217; Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At sundown 60 years ago today, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/10\/books\/review\/Roberts-t.html?pagewanted=all\">wrongfully executed by the U.S. Government<\/a> after courts  found them guilty of espionage. Now, six decades later, we know that their execution was a direct result of the mass hysteria about the dangers of communism at the beginning of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/rosenberg.png\" alt=\"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" class=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>But what have we learned in the six decades since the Rosenbergs&#8217;s wrongful execution? Thanks to the tireless work of organizations like the Innocence Project and pro bono law clinics, the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innocenceproject.org\/cases\/\">innocent people who have been exonerated from death row<\/a> is steadily growing. <\/p>\n<p>But, as the below graph shows, the struggle to abolish the death penalty still has a long ways to go:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/executions.png\" alt=\"Executions in the United States 1950\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" class=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At sundown 60 years ago today, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were wrongfully executed by the U.S. Government. What have we learned since?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[13],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9999,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/9999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}