Vince Brannigan wrote:

Keith Willshaw wrote:

.... Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ...

They were not convicted of treason, but of wartime espionage. Of course
the espionage was on behalf of a nominal ally, not an enemy,

Yeah sort of like the recent spy on behalf of Israel

but that was conveniently overlooked because by the time of the trial
the cold war had begun.

Well it really is sort of irrelevant, since it was still espionage
for a foreign power.

Their guilt and the justice of the trial and sentence are
debated to today.

Well even with the newly unsealed evidence, and revelations from
soviet sources which support the guilt of the Rosenbergs as well as
implicating many others, debate will continue regardless of the facts.
As to debates of the justice of trying and punishing
them, well that depends of feelings and loyalties, for
which facts are irrelevant.

Vince