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Her story, fashioned into an Off Broadway play and television movies, was later questioned by an investigator in a 2021 book.
Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, who has died aged 78 in a house fire in Connemara, campaigned internationally to abolish the death penalty after her own experience of almost 17 years in prison in the US, five ...
Sonia ​“Sunny” Jacobs, 78, was a for­mer death row pris­on­er whose sto­ry of wrong­ful con­vic­tion was fea­tured in the off ...
A house fire in Co Galway this week claimed the life of the anti-death penalty campaigner who spent five years on death row ...
AFTER enduring a hellish 17 years on death row in a Florida prison awaiting execution for a crime she did not commit, Sunny ...
Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs was wrongfully incarcerated for 17 years, the first woman in Florida to face the death penalty, and 30 ...
Sunny Jacobs, exonerated after years on death row, rebuilt her life in Galway — only for tragedy to strike again ...
A US woman who spent years on death row for murders she did not commit was among two people found dead after a house fire in ...
Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, who was in her 70s, died in a house fire in Casla on Tuesday; another victim, Kevin Kelly, was in his ...
A woman who spent years on death row in the US only to die in a house fire in Galway may have been attempting to escape the ...
Sunny’ (76) and her carer Kevin Kelly, from Galway, died in the house fire which broke out in the bungalow in Gleann Mac ...
Despite their isolation, they regularly received visitors mostly in connection with the Sunny Centre, which she set up with ...