Only the arrival in the increasingly crowded shrubbery of Mary, Blair’s long-suffering wife, had prevented him blowing Blair’s brains out. However, in especially severe cases, life imprisonment or any term of at least five years may be sentenced.

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Because I have the courage of my convictions, my boy,” Mackay said, his voice momentarily gaining strength. She was forever drinking coffee, having lunch with Clara or happening to drop by just as they were about to sit down at teatime, making them feel obliged to invite her to share their evening meal.The penalties for treason-type crimes before the abolition of the monarchy in 1948 included death as maximum penalty and, for some crimes, as the only penalty possible. Marion was not always a published author as she worked in the adjacent field of journalism, making a living on Fleet Street. Since the abolition of the death penalty for murder in 1965 an execution for treason was unlikely to have been carried out.

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A person who, with intent that a measure or decision of the Head of State, the Government, the Riksdag or the supreme courts will be forced or impeded with foreign assistance, undertakes an action that involves danger of this is also guilty of high treason. S. citizens as no longer holding British nationality - and thus no longer liable to a charge of treason. In 1949, Iva Toguri D'Aquino was convicted of treason for wartime Radio Tokyo broadcasts (under the name of "Tokyo Rose") and sentenced to ten years, of which she served six.

Sweden's treason laws are divided into three parts; Högförräderi (High treason), Landsförräderi (Treason) and Landssvek (Treachery). Historian Ron Chernow reports that Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and President George Washington "regarded much of the criticism fired at their administration as disloyal, even treasonous, in nature.