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…showed last 75 words of 2971 total…their cases Americans actually lost their lives because of their acts, but neither of them received the death penalty. The reason they got off without the death penalty was because we were not fighting a war at that time. Because the United States was in a cold war with the Soviet Union at the time of their trial, Julius and Ethel were executed for their crimes that should have only got them long prison terms.