Death Row Survivor Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs Found ‘Tranquility’ in Connemara Before Death in House Fire

Remembering Death Row Survivor and Advocate Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs | Death Penalty Information Center

Sonia ​“Sunny” Jacobs, a for­mer death row pris­on­er whose sto­ry of wrong­ful con­vic­tion was fea­tured in the off-Broadway play ​“The Exonerated)” and who became a promi­nent advo­cate for for­mer­ly incar­cer­at­ed pris­on­ers, died in a house fire, along with her care­giv­er, in County Galway, Ireland, on June 3, 2025. Ms. Jacobs was con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in 1976 for the mur­ders of two law enforce­ment offi­cers at a Florida…

Inside Sunny Jacobs' hellish 17 years on US death row before tragic fire death

AFTER enduring a hellish 17 years on death row in a Florida prison awaiting execution for a crime she did not commit, Sunny Jacobs found peace in the west of Ireland. But, in a tragic twist, Sonia, alongside her carer Kevin Kelly, sadly perished in a house fire at her beloved Connemara cottage yesterday, two decades after moving to the rural Galway region. GettySunny was wrongfully convivcted of murdering a cop[/caption] GettyIrishman Pringle an…

Death row survivor Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs found ‘tranquility’ in Connemara before death in house fire

Jacobs spent five years on death row in Florida for murder she did not commit

Death row survivor alerted emergency services to fire that killed her, says pal

‘Sunny’ (76) and her carer Kevin Kelly, from Galway, died in the house fire which broke out in the bungalow in Gleann Mac Muirinn in Connemara in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Tributes paid to 'remarkable' US death row exoneree killed in Galway house fire

Sonia Jacobs spent 17 years in Florida detention for a crime she didn’t commit.