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All six individuals were charged with treason for giving aid and comfort to the executed German saboteur Herbert Hans Haupt. On appeal, these judgments were reversed and remanded to be retried. [19] Hans Max Haupt was convicted again on June 9, 1944. [20] He was sentenced to life in prison.
1283. Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales; 1305. William Wallace; 1381. John Ball; 1405. Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York; 1478. George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, for plotting against King Edward IV of England in 1478
This category is intended only for people convicted of treason, who were not executed. For persons executed for treason see Category:People executed for treason.
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
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).
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 ...
At least 14 people have been charged with treason against various states; at least six were convicted, five of whom were executed. Only two prosecutions for treason against a state were ever carried out in the U.S.: one against Thomas Dorr and the other after John Brown's conspiracy. It has often been discussed, both legally and in matter of ...
THE SPY WHO USED HIS SON: Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from ...