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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.
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.
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 25, 2019 · Sonia Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was on death row for nearly five years before the Florida state court ruled the judge had improperly imposed the death sentence even when the jury did not.
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Tafero, his wife Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs, their two children (ages 9 years and 10 months) and Walter Rhodes were found asleep inside. Tafero had previously been in prison and was on probation. Black saw a gun lying on the floor inside the car.
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.
Feb 27, 2018 · Sunny Jacobs 17 years served. In 1976, Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was sentenced to death at the age of 28, along with her partner Jesse Tafero, for the murder of two police officers in Florida.
