Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed to set an example, like the unfortunate duo Sacco and Vanzetti, who were also seated in Thomas Edison's Rocking Chair at Sing-Sing decades earlier.

Spies, civilian or military, must never be executed because they have information in their heads they can reveal to CI agents at a later date. We cannot interrogate a corpse.

Spies, civilian or military, can also be traded, if they were valuable.

Iranians who spied for Israel over the past two years were simply executed. The Mossad did not seek to trade for them, as Tel Aviv saw them as disposable assets ("useful idiots"). And the Iranian regime saw this and so made examples of them, rather than incarcerate them for future interrogations or trades.

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