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Pages in category "Executed spies" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Jack Agazarian;
This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage. It includes Americans spying against their own country and people spying on behalf of the United States. American Revolution era spies
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The following is a list of individuals that have either been imprisoned for spying, or individuals that have been arrested in connection to their spying activities. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Kaufman, who stated his concerns about executing the Rosenbergs on the Sabbath, rescheduled the execution for 8 p.m.—before sunset and the Sabbath—the regular time for executions at Sing Sing where they were being held. [54] On June 19, 1953, Julius died from the first electric shock. Ethel's execution did not go smoothly.
The United States Air Force executed three airmen by hanging between 1950 and 1954. The execution of Robert E. Keller was conducted under the authority of the 1920 Articles of War, and those of Burns and Dennis Jr. were carried out under a short-lived revised version of the Articles of War popularly known as the Elston Act of 1948. [citation ...
The abolitionist John Brown, the first person executed for treason within the United States, convicted in 1859 of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and fomenting a slave insurrection for his part in the Harpers Ferry raid. Aaron Dwight Stevens took part in John Brown's raid and was executed in 1860 for treason against Virginia.
The most recent person to be executed by the military is U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett, executed on April 13, 1961, for rape and attempted murder. Since the end of the Civil War in 1865, only one person has been executed for a purely military offense: Private Eddie Slovik, who was executed on January 31, 1945, after being convicted of ...