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		Brown was convicted and executed at Charlestown for treason against the state of Virginia after his unsuccessful October 16-18 raid at Harpers Ferry.
		Dred Scott was quoted to have said: "Will nobody speak for me at Washington, even without hope of other reward than the blessings of a poor black man and his family." The decision was overturned by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
		Lee, who first blamed the massacre on Paiute Indians, was excommunicated in 1970 and tried, convicted and executed in 1877 for his role in the killings.
	www.timelines.ws /1855_1859.HTML (13738 words)

	The Internment of the Ethnic Japanese in WWII -- Military Justification?
		Let's list a number of things that were not known to most of the people making the decision to intern, at the time of the decision.
		The only reason Harada was not convicted of treason was that he shot himself to death prior to being apprehended.
		If a white American born in Japan were to confront US troops wearing a Japanese uniform, I don't think he could have persuaded most of them that what he was doing was forgivable, let alone honorable, if he explained himself for an hour.
	www.ww2pacific.com /relocation.html (18723 words)

	James Wilson The Scottish Radical Martyr
		On 6th July - "trial commenced amid the greatest excitement" - eighteen of them were brought up for trial at Edinburgh on a charge of high treason and notwithstanding the eloquence of Francis Jeffrey, who was retained for their defence, all were convicted.
		Perley Wilson commenced his political career around 1792, when some of the Whig members of parliament formed themselves into a society named the "Friends of the People".
		The second breadth of the plot was used - due to the fact the first could not be opened until a certain period of time had elapsed since it's previous interment in 1818.
	members.tripod.com /dcwilson (5277 words)

	Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several people generally thought of as traitors in the United States, such as the Walker Family and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were not prosecuted for treason, but rather for espionage.
		List of convicted or accused traitors, by country
		However, instead of being tried for treason, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder US nationals, aiding the Taliban and terrorist offences relating to Al Qaeda, even though he joined the Taliban before September 11, 2001, in the period when the United States was aiding the Taliban to help their destruction of the opium crop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traitor (2078 words)

	Dossier of Stalin's Henchman Presented (Soviet secret police chief Lavrenty Beria)
		Beria was arrested in a power struggle months after Stalin's March 1953 death, convicted of treason and terrorism and shot.
		Prosecutors allowed the cameramen to film some documents, which included a list of women that was confiscated from his aide.
		He oversaw purges in which tens of thousands of people were executed and ruled the forced labor camps where millions were imprisoned.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/824739/posts (1341 words)

	Hans Scholl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He was convicted of (Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior) treason and (Click link for more info and facts about executed) executed by (Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people) guillotine.
		List of members of the July 20 plot
		Hans Scholl (22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the (Click link for more info and facts about White Rose) White Rose resistance movement in (The Nazi dictatorship under Hitler (1933-1945)) Nazi Germany.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Hans_Scholl.htm (1341 words)

	Act to Revoke the Conviction of Louis Riel
		The preamble of this bill states that Louis David Riel, Member of the House of Commons for the electoral district of Provencher from 1873 to 1874, was convicted on August 1, 1885 of high treason, sentenced to death, and was hanged on November 16, 1885, at Regina, North West Territories.
		Representatives of the Saskatchewan people requested that they be allowed to send delegates to Ottawa with their List of Rights as in 1870, so that an agreement could be reached on their entry into Confederation, should they become a free province.
		Secretary of State Chapleau acknowledged receipt of the petition and then Prime Minister Macdonald, who later denied receiving it, passed it on to his Minister of the Interior, the hon.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/riel/revokeconv.html (1341 words)

	constitution_eng.doc
		However, where a President of the Republic has been convicted of high treason or grave and deliberate violations of the Constitution, he or she is not entitled to benefits due to former Heads of State.
		The members of Cabinet are selected from political organizations on the basis of their seats in the Chamber of Deputies without excluding the possibility of appointing to Cabinet other competent people who do not belong to any political organizations.
		Article 148 The President of the Republic, after consultation with the Cabinet and the Superior Council of the Judiciary, shall submit to the Senate a list of candidates for appointment as judges of the Supreme Court.
	www.cjc.gov.rw /eng/constitution_eng.doc (1341 words)

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