On June 19th, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison. Their deaths marked the first execution of civilians for espionage in U.S. history. Accused during the McCarthy era of passing secrets on atomic technology to the Soviets, the couple allegedly recruited Mrs. Rosenberg's brother, a worker at Los Alamos, who later testified against them. There were many pleas for clemency from figures including those of Pope Pius XII and Albert Einstein.
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