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The US killed the Rosenbergs for espionage. That was technically a nonviolent act, although furnishing atomic secrets to the USSR could be seen as an accessory
by tomjen3 5y ago
The US killed the Rosenbergs for espionage. That was technically a nonviolent act, although furnishing atomic secrets to the USSR could be seen as an accessory to mass murder.
Killing somebody for heroin? That is an entirely new level of depravety.
- dustintrex 5y agoLegislation in the US allows the death penalty for drug trafficking alone, although AFAIK this has never been applied without violent offences as well.
- redis_mlc 5y ago> The US killed the Rosenbergs for espionage. Yes, but it was also a response to the massive number of other spies in both the US and Britain. I can think of a dozen, and I'm sure there's a lot more. Britain had files spanning years for some, yet did nothing, even allowing them to escape to Russia. (In some cases it was restrictions on their intelligence services, like no power of arrest, but also the embarrassment factor was sometimes too much.) It destroyed the trust between the US and the UK.