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  2. Treason laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This definition, in Title 13, Chapter 75, § 3401 of Vermont Statutes, echoes the definition found in the United States Constitution. Penalty: Death by electrocution. Vermont criminal law maintains capital punishment specifically for treason. No other crime is punishable by death. The method of execution is specified as electrocution. [43]

  3. Article Three of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution defines treason as specific acts, namely "levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." A contrast is therefore maintained with the English law, whereby crimes including conspiring to kill the King or "violating" the Queen, were punishable as treason.

  4. Treason - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. High treason in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the crime of treason, the Treason Felony Act 1848 (still in force today) created a new offence known as treason felony, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment instead of death (but today, due to the abolition of the death penalty, the maximum penalty both for high treason and treason felony is the same—life imprisonment).

  6. High crimes and misdemeanors - Wikipedia

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    "High crimes and misdemeanors" is a phrase from Section 4 of Article Two of the United States Constitution: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

  7. What to know about the growing number of treason and ... - AOL

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    The legal definition of treason was then expanded to include providing vaguely defined “assistance” to foreign countries or organizations, effectively exposing to prosecution anyone in contact ...

  8. Treason, contempt, exposing secrets. Legal challenges against ...

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    Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail Monday by the country's Supreme Court in a case related to a lawyer's murder while the nation's election oversight body demanded his ...

  9. Moldovan president signs changes to treason law denounced by ...

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    CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova's pro-European president signed into law on Monday changes to the criminal code expanding provisions on treason denounced by her opponents and Amnesty International.