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  2. List of people convicted of treason - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Treason laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Penalty: Life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after serving 20 years, or any term of years. Treason is a "Class A" felony under sentencing guidelines, and current guidelines provide for a maximum sentence of life in prison and/or a $50,000 fine. [53]

  4. Classes of offenses under United States federal law - Wikipedia

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    Maximum prison term [1] Maximum fine [2] [note 1] Probation term [3] [note 2] Maximum supervised release term [4] [note 3] Maximum prison term upon supervised release revocation [5] Special assessment [6] [note 4] Felony A Life imprisonment (or death in certain cases of murder, treason, espionage or mass trafficking of drugs) $250,000: 1-5 ...

  5. Life imprisonment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This means that criminals given a determinate life sentence will typically die in prison, without ever being released. If a life without parole sentence is imposed, executive branch government officials (usually the state governor) may have the power to grant a pardon, or to commute a sentence to time served, effectively ending the sentence early.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Life imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    A whole life order means life without parole (e.g. natural life in prison until death). However, there is, at least in theory, a possibility of release of prisoners serving such sentences, as the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to release on licence any life sentence prisoner on compassionate grounds in exceptional circumstances. [115]

  8. Cop, father, traitor, spy: How Robert Hanssen’s pious life ...

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    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 ...

  9. Criminal sentencing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The legislature generally sets a short, mandatory minimum sentence that an offender must spend in prison (e.g. one-third of the minimum sentence, or one-third of the high end of a sentence). The parole board then sets the actual date of prison release, as well as the rules that the parolee must follow when released.