Entries tagged with “Sunny Jacobs”

Jun 05, 2025

Remembering Death Row Survivor and Advocate Sonia ​“Sunny” Jacobs

Sonia​“Sunny” Jacobs, a for­mer death row pris­on­er whose sto­ry of wrong­ful con­vic­tion was fea­tured in the off-Broadway play​“The Exonerated)” and who became a promi­nent advo­cate for for­mer­ly incar­cer­at­ed pris­on­ers, died in a house fire, along with her care­giv­er, in County Galway, Ireland, on June 3, 2025. Ms. Jacobs was con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in 1976 for the mur­ders of two law enforce­ment offi­cers at a Florida rest stop. She and Jesse Tafero, the father of…