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Sonia Jacobs (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein) Freed while co-defendant, convicted on similar evidence, went to the electric chair.
Commuted to life in prison in 1981. Conviction overturned in 1992. Released on October 9, 1992. photo gallery. In 1976, Sunny Jacobs, a white woman, was sentenced to death for killing two police officers in Florida.
Sonia Jacobs at NU Law (Photo: Loren Santow) Jacobs was a 28-year-old 'vegetarian hippie' when she was arrested after a 1976 shootout in which two cops were killed. Her first husband was executed for the crime before a witness recanted.
Feb 27, 2018 · Sonia Jacobs freed while co-defendant, convicted on similar evidence, went to the electric chair Legal team: Center on Wrongful Conviction. “For a while we were just a number lost in a system, but then these wonderful people came along.”
Mar 7, 2018 · Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs was a young mother of two when she was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death by electric chair. This is how she found the courage to be truly free.
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. He took 13 minutes to die.
Jan 22, 2009 · Stolen Time is the memoir of Sonia `Sunny` Jacobs, a former death row inmate in Florida who spent 17 years in prison wrongfully convicted of the murder of twoFlorida highway patrol police...
