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No, so far he's not been charged with treason. The US allows the death penalty for divulging certain types of classified information - for example information
by caf 13y ago
No, so far he's not been charged with treason. The US allows the death penalty for divulging certain types of classified information - for example information directly concerning nuclear weapons, and communications intelligence.
I don't think any progressive countries impose the death penalty at all, but I suppose this depends on what countries you would include in that category.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI don't think any progressive countries impose the death penalty at all Would you consider Canada progressive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanao_Inouye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanao_Inouye I didn't mean it is necessarily like this today, but rather that even progressive countries continued to execute for treason at least partway through their history of progressiveness. It took longer for that piece (death for treason) to die out than most other pieces (like, I dunno, denying women suffrage?). It's sort of an awkward idea to express. I could start listing, but you should really just peruse this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_convicted_of_treason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_convicted_of_tre...