World Day Against the Death Penalty, 2021: Notes for an Introduction to Sunny Jacobs: Delivered as part of an Online Function held by Capital Punishment Justice Project Inc. in association with Clifford Chance Lawyers (original) (raw)

Sunny Jacobs was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Florida in the late 1970s when she was 27 years old. Sunny spent five years on death row and more than a decade in jail before she was released. During that time, her children became estranged, her husband, Jesse, who was also innocent, was executed; and her parents died in a plane crash. When Sunny emerged from prison, she rebuilt her life and has dedicated herself to fighting the death penalty around the world and assisting other exonerees to find peace and accepotance.