While Treason prosecutions are rare today, only 40 cases have been prosecuted in U.S. history. Of the 40 treason cases charged since the founding of the U.S., only 13 resulted in a conviction ...

There have been plenty of Trials of the Century in American history, but the prosecution of Jefferson Davis for treason would surely ... was going to be the test case on the legality of secession ...

The four, all aged 16 or 17, were fined in what was the first Swedish treason case in living memory, Sweden's TT news agency said. In a protest against the monarchy, the youngsters had assembled a ...

For example, courts held that armed resistance to the collection of taxes constituted constructive treason. A number of cases arising out of the Civil War also suggested, without directly ...

In Tanzania Tundu Lissu, the opposition leader, was arrested on April 9th. The charge sheet cites comments he made ...

(There is a reference in the judgment to the claim that all treason laws have retrospective effect.) He concludes that the prosecution has failed to make out a case of high treason against the ...

For example, the fact that she voluntarily handed ... that she will receive a sentence below the lower limit for high treason cases — 12 years. Earlier, Russia’s Federal Security Service ...