EXECUTION OF ROSENBERGS
DATE SET IN MARCH NEW YORK, February 16. Judge Irving Kaufman today set the week beginning March 9 for the execution of the atomic spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The Rosenbergs have asked the Appeals Court to stay the execution pending renewed petitions to the Supreme* Court. Their petition will be heard tomorrow by the Appeals Court. The executions, originally set foi January 14, were stayed early last month to permit the condemned couple, Julius, aged 34, and his wife, aged 36. to appeal for presidential clemency. Refusal of clemency was announced last week by President Eisenhower. The Rosenbergs were convicted nearly .two years ago of conspiring to transmit ‘atomic information to a war-time Soviet spy ring. The exact date and hour of the executions is left for determination by the warden of Sing Sing Prison, New York. * Hundreds picketed the White House last week in protest against, the death penalty. For the second time the Roman Catholic Apostolic delegation in Washington informed the Government that the Pope has received large numbers of pleas for mercy. Last night a Protestant leader renewed the plea of some 2300 clergy for commutation of the sentence. No American civilian ever has died for espionage.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26968, 18 February 1953, Page 7
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