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Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. [1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.
On June 24, 1844, a warrant was issued charging that "Joseph Smith, late of the county aforesaid, did, on or about the nineteenth day of June. A.D. 1844, at the county and state aforesaid, commit the crime of treason against the government and people of the State of Illinois." (Ludlow, pp. 1346–1348) [26]
This category is intended only for people convicted of treason, who were not executed. ... Fictional characters who committed sedition or treason (1 C, 27 P) A.
William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War. Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner's March against the coal companies and the U.S. Army at Blair Mountain, West Virginia. He was sentenced to 10 years and ...
An enemy of the state is a person suspected of political crimes against the state, such as treason.In designating certain persons and organizations as enemies of the state, the government can realize the political repression of political opponents, such as dissidents; thus a government can justify political repression as protecting the national security of the country and the nation.
The spy met his inglorious end in a Colorado jail cell this week - but his brazen path of treason remains a wild and cautionary tale, writes Sheila Flynn Cop, father, traitor, spy: How Robert ...
Treason. This, when real, merits the highest punishment. But most Codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the Oppressions of the Government. The latter are virtues: yet have furnished more victims to the Executioner than the ...
It is a dreadful thing to take a human life, but we must remember that treason has to do with war and war has to do with death. The life of the traitor Max Stephan is less valuable than the lives of our loyal sons which are being given to the cause of the United States. We have been too soft, to the extent of being mushy. This is no ordinary war.