Sunny Jacobs’ death in Galway fire marks end of life shaped by wrongful conviction and resilience
Sunny Jacobs who served 17 years in prison, including time on death row, after she was wrongfully convicted of the murder of a US police officer and a Canadian constable. Pictures: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie
As Sunny Jacobs sat in her tiny cell on death row, waiting to be executed for a crime she insists she did not commit, she decided the only way she could find some peace was to pretend she was a monk in a cave, and not a prisoner in a cell.
Every day, she would work on her mind, because that was all she had left that belonged to her.
