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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

FOUND: Woman wrongly held for years on us death row dies in irish house fire | Mind Blowing Facts

Sunny Jacobs
Sunny Jacobs in London in February 2006. She founded a nonprofit that campaigns against wrongful convictions. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

After enduring hellish years on America’s death row for a crime she said she did not commit, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs found an idyll, and healing, in rural Ireland. But in a final, cruel twist, her sanctuary claimed her life.

Jacobs, 78, and her carer, Kevin Kelly, were found dead on Tuesday after a fire at her cottage near the village of Casla, in County Galway.

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