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1. deathpenaltyinfo.org › stories › i-had-nothing-the'I had nothing... The world I left no longer existed'

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   Jul 4, 1999 · When Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs went to prison for murder in 1976, her son was 9. Her daughter, 10 months old, was still nursing. When she was freed in 1992, her son was married with a child of his own and her daughter was a 16-year-old stranger.

2. www.law.northwestern.edu › fl › sonia-jacobsSonia Jacobs - Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

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   • The Murder and Kidnaping
   • The Convictions and Sentencing
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   • Jacobs' Death Sentence Vacated
   • Tafero's Macabre Execution
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   After Black learned via radio that Rhodes had a criminal record, gunfire broke out. Black and Irwin were slain, and the group sped off in the Black's patrol car, driven by Rhodes. At a nearby apartment complex, Rhodes commandeered a car and kidnapped the man in it, Leonard Levinson. They were captured a little later when Rhodes lost control of the ...

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   The convictions of Jacobs and Tafero rested primarily on the testimony of Rhodes, who was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. In Jacobs' case, the prosecution also presented the testimony of a jailhouse informant, Brenda Isham, who claimed Jacobs had confessed. The trials were surroun...

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   In 1978, the Florida Supreme Court temporarily relinquished jurisdiction of Jacobs' case, directing Futch to hold a hearing on whether the Broward County State Attorney had improperly withheld exculpatory evidence during pretrial discovery, including reports stating that Rhodes had told a prison guard that he alone shot the officers and that he had...

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   In 1981, the Florida Supreme Court agreed that the discovery issues did not warrant a new trial, affirming Jacobs' conviction. However, the court commuted her sentence to life in prison, holding that Futch had lacked sufficient basis to override the jury's recommendation of a life sentence. Jacobs v. State, 396 So. 2d 713 (1981). Tafero was not so ...

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   Jacobs' petition for a writ of habeas corpus was still pending when, on May 4, 1990, Tafero was put to death in the Florida electric chair. Officials interrupted the execution three times because flames and smoke shot out of his head. During the first interruption, he continued to move and breathe. Shortly before the execution, filmmaker Micki Dick...

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   Jurisdiction: Broward County, Florida Date of crime: February 20, 1976 Date of arrest: February 20, 1976 Charge: First-degree murder of two police officers and kidnaping Sentence: Death for the murders, life for the kidnaping Release date: October 9, 1992 Months wrongfully incarcerated: 200 Date of birth: 1947 Age at time of arrest: 28 Defendant ra...

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3. newsfeed.time.com › 2011/11/22 › from-behind-bars-toFrom Behind Bars to Before the Altar: Former Death Row ...

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   Nov 22, 2011 · Jacobs, whose real name is Sonia, was 28 years old in 1976 when she and her second husband, Jesse Tafero, were involved in a roadside police shootout in Florida. Jacobs, her husband and their...

4. innocenceproject.org › bearing-the-burden-of-loveBearing the burden of love - Innocence Project

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   Feb 27, 2018 · Jacobs’ story, along with those of five other wrongfully convicted death row inmates, was featured in the play The Exonerated. In 2001, she married Peter Pringle, from Ireland who also survived death row after 15 years for the murder of a police officer.

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5. www.expressandstar.com › news › crimeFrom death row to wedding vows: Watch how one couple found ...

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   Mar 2, 2016 · Peter Pringle, now aged 77, and Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs, aged 68, both served years on death row for alleged murder. Sunny spent 17 years in the United States and Peter 15 years in Ireland.

6. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-northern-ireland-38759821From death row to a life together - BBC News

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   Jan 28, 2017 · Along with her husband, Peter Pringle, - who she met while giving a talk about her death-row experience - Sunny runs a retreat for other victims of wrongful conviction.

7. iohr.rightsobservatory.org › iohr-tv › unjustlyUnjustly sentenced to death: Sunny Jacobs' story ...

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   Oct 9, 2020 · Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. She spent 17 years in prison and was exonerated in 1992 but this reprieve came too late for her husband who was executed in 1990 by a faulty electric chair.