OSSINING, N.Y., June 19 -  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were murdered in the electric chair because they would not buy their lives from the FBI by agreeing to "finger" other innocent Americans to feed more fake "spy" hysteria.
        They died after they sent their final clemency message to their fellow Americans and the world.

Julius, who in his final days spoke with contempt of "the rotten deals" the Eisenhower government was offering him through U. S. Attorney General Herbert Brownwell was placed in the electric chair at 8:04 p.m. daylight time and was pronounced dead three minutes later. He stood erect and then looked straight ahead as he was placed into the death machine.
        Ethel, mother of two children, Michael 10, and Bobby 6, was placed in the chair at 8:11 and was pronounced dead at 8:16.  Just before she was strapped into the death instrument, Ethel turned and kissed  on the cheek Mrs. Helen Evans, a prison matron who had attended her for more than two years as she lived alone in the empty, isolated woman's death-cell block.
        Mrs. Evans, who was almost in tears, mumbled something to the doomed mother, patted her on the shoulder, and then faltered from the death chamber.
        Just a half hour before Ethel was strapped in the chair, President Eisenhower read a letter from her pleading for her life and that of her husband. Her plea was flung aside by the President with the comment it was without merit.
        While an agonized and shocked humanity all over the earth hoped and pleaded with Eisenhower not to kill the couple against whom there was not an iota of evidence, the executioner threw the switch. The sun went down over the Hudson as they died.
        After the fourth shock, guards removed one of the two straps from Mrs. Rosenberg and the doctors applied their stethoscopes. But they were not sure she was dead. Executioner Francel came to them from his switchboard.