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  2. 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.

  3. Treason laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of people convicted of treason - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:People convicted of treason - Wikipedia

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    For persons executed for treason see Category:People executed for treason. Subcategories. ... Fictional characters who committed sedition or treason (1 C, 27 P) A.

  6. Political crime - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Senate Democrat defends Vindman against Musk’s ‘treason’ threat

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    Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) hit Elon Musk for suggesting in a post on his social platform X on Wednesday that retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the ...

  8. This CIA turncoat kept up treason from prison and he ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. How does a pardon work in Missouri? Here’s what it may mean ...

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    In all three cases, the person in question has to be convicted of a state-level crime and sentenced to a punishment like jail or prison time, fines or another penalty.