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Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs and Jesse Joseph Tafero, the father of the younger of her two children, were tried separately, convicted, and sentenced to death by the same judge for the 1976 murders of two law enforcement officers at a rest stop off of Interstate 95 in Broward County, Florida.
Nov 22, 2011 · He was sentenced to death for the 1980 murder of two policemen during a bank raid in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, said to have been carried out by a radical faction of the Irish Republican...
Sep 24, 2012 · One of them is Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, who was arrested in 1976, after she and her partner Jesse Tafero were caught in a roadside gunfight in Florida that left two officers dead. Jacobs, Tafero,...
Jul 4, 1999 · Jacobs spent the next five years in solitary confinement, her vocal cords becoming atrophied because of non-use and denied even her photos of Eric, a son by her first marriage, and Tina, her baby by Tafero.
Jun 27, 2017 · Many people find the west of Ireland to be a place of healing and recovery, but none more so than Queens, NY native Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs and Dublin-born Peter Pringle, both previously...
Oct 26, 2000 · Jacobs spent five years in isolation, the only woman on Florida's death row. She lived in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell and got her meals through a metal slot. "At first I was very, very angry and...
Oct 11, 1999 · Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs spent five years on death row in Florida in the US, and 12 years in prison. Seven years ago this month, she was released after her conviction was overturned. While facing...
