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He was hung for trying to get German aid for the Easter uprising in Ireland during WW1. Literally Treason.

• pasabagi 5y ago
  Well, kinda. Apparently they dug up the original unpunctuated norman french text of the treason act, then read it so that it had a comma between two clauses, changing its sense, allowing him to be charged with treason: > or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King’s Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm, or elsewhere, They also either forged or published a bunch of pretty saucy personal diaries, as a way to blacken his name.
  • cafard 5y ago
    It is generally accepted that they did not forge them.
    • pasabagi 5y ago
      To be honest, the only thing that interested me about the diaries was what it tells you about the home office, the character of the people trying to have Roger Casement hanged, and the integrity of the institution they served.