{"id":62880,"date":"2025-06-06T00:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T00:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62880"},"modified":"2025-06-06T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T00:44:51","slug":"woman-who-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62880","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Spent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-201.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-201.png 1000w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-201-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-201-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-201-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonia \u201cSunny\u201d Jacobs, the American woman who spent 17 years imprisoned for murders she did not commit, has died at 78 in a house fire in County Galway, Ireland. Her caretaker, Kevin Kelly, also perished in the blaze, which broke out early Tuesday, June 3, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-202.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-202.png 750w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-202-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacobs\u2019 life was one of profound injustice and resilience. In 1976, she and her partner, Jesse Tafero, were wrongfully convicted in Florida after two police officers were fatally shot. The actual gunman, Walter Rhodes, falsely accused them. Tafero was executed in 1990; Jacobs spent five years on death row before her release in 1992, following a successful appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-203-664x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-203-664x1024.png 664w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-203-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-203.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After regaining her freedom, Jacobs became an international voice against the death penalty, co-founding The Sunny Center Foundation to support exonerees. In 2012, she married Irish exoneree Peter Pringle, who died in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her story was told in her memoir <em>Stolen Time<\/em> and the film <em>The Exonerated<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI chose healing,\u201d Jacobs once said. \u201cNot to live in bitterness, but to leave a legacy of hope and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation into the fire is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62843\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia \u201cSunny\u201d Jacobs, the American woman who spent 17 years imprisoned for murders she did not commit, has died at 78 in a house fire in County&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62884,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62880\/revisions\/62884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}