Blast from the past..
The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/books/the-informer.html?pagewanted=all
Next the NY Times will weep and wail, fall down, wallow in the dirt, for Mary Surratt who was hanged for her part in the Lincoln murder.
Mary Surratt, OTOH, was guilty only of being the mother of John Surratt who WAS one of the conspirators (as Mary was not) and the kangaroo court prosecution, conviction and its order of execution carried out against Mary Surratt were a rank disgrace. Her lawyer and the lawyer for Dr. Samuel Mudd, objected that the military tribunal had no jurisdiction over trials of civilians such as their clients but the court would have none of it. A couple of years later, in Ex Parte Milligan, the SCOTUS ruled that military courts had no jurisdiction over civilians even in time of war. Even five of the nine judges on the "court" that ordered her executed later relented and petitioned President Andrew Johnson to commute her sentence to life in prison but Johnson claimed he never saw the petition, You do the lady a grave disservice.
Duing the late unpleasantness between the states, the New York Times was, surprise!, surprise! a significant force for all things liberal and air-headed (never changed since) and indeed OUGHT to "weep, wail, fall down, wallow in the dirt, for Mary Surratt," one of the victims of Times' hysteria.
David Greenglass should have been fryolated but was sentenced to 9 years or so, released in 1960, and lived to the age of 92, having sold sister Ethel down the River Styx (with her co-operation, to be sure but probably without her actual complicity) in exchange for some leniency and immunity for his equally guilty wife.