Julius and Ethel Rosenberg The outcome of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial for espionage in 1951 and their subsequent execution in 1953 was directly related to the political climate at that time. The government’s evidence against the Rosenbergs was not overwhelming, but due to a combination of fear and political pressure, the guilty verdict was inevitable. Even though Julius did not deliver the secrets of the atomic bomb to Moscow, nor did they cause the …showed first 75 words of 2971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2971 total…their cases Americans actually lost their lives because of their acts, but neither of them received the death penalty. The reason they got off without the death penalty was because we were not fighting a war at that time. Because the United States was in a cold war with the Soviet Union at the time of their trial, Julius and Ethel were executed for their crimes that should have only got them long prison terms.