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Jul 4, 1999 · On Oct. 9, 1992, she was released. She remembers seeing the sun and the moon as she left the Broward County Courthouse. “I felt like an alien at first,” Jacobs says, adding that in prison at least she had stature. “Outside, I had nothing: no money, no place to go. The world I left no longer existed.”. For a time, Jacobs had flashbacks ...
Sep 24, 2012 · Since “The Exonerated” premièred, in 2002, Jacobs has been played by a number of actors, including Jill Clayburgh, Mia Farrow, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Marlo Thomas, and Amy Irving.
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. by John Seasly November 25, 2019.
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Aug 8, 2023 · Frank Anderson was convicted in 1998 of a 1996 triple murder in Mohave County. He, along with Robert Poyson, were charged with the death of 39-year-old Leta Kagen, her son, 15-year-old Robert ...
Ohio — Conviction: 2007, Released: 2023. On June 15, 2023, Ohio death-sentenced prisoner Lamont Hunter was released after serving nearly 18 years for allegedly causing the death of his 3-year-old son, Trustin Blue. To obtain his freedom, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.
Nov 21, 2011 · Once upon a darker time, Ms. Jacobs and her second husband began serving death sentences for two murders in Florida. She entered solitary confinement inside Broward Correctional Institution as a ...
Sunny Jacobs on life after Death Row. Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit and spent 17 years in prison. She 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.
