One final kiss before execution, 1953- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg share one final kiss and sing "The Internationale" as they were being strapped to the electric chair. On June 19, 1953, at Sing Sing Prison in New York, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed, the first American civilians put to death for espionage during peacetime. Accused of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, their trial gripped the nation during the height of the Red Scare. The couple maintained their innocence to th