A handcuffed Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel embrace outside the court house in Foley Square, New York, after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. They were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing prison on 19 June 1953 Illustration: Photograph: NY Daily News via Getty Images
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