Treason

Harper’s Ferry that day and he and his men were captured by soldiers who were under the command of Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee (History Net, n.d., para. 11). John Brown was tried and convicted of numerous charges. Murder, treason, inciting a slave uprising, and treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia are the charges he faced. Brown was sentenced to death and was hung at Charles Town on December 2, 1859. John Brown’s actions against slavery and his outspoken opinion are said to…

King Louis was charged for treason and was executed on the guillotine in 1793. Marie Antoinette too was put on trial later that year. Her charges were treason and theft and the false rumor of committing sexual abuse against her son. A jury of all males found her guilty and she too was executed on the guillotine. Right before she was executed…

There were two major points that Webster argued; one was that the state of South Carolina was committing treason and it was bad for the whole nation and the second thing is that allowing South Carolina to choose what they do will stop the progress of the nation. Webster argued that the constitution was written by the people, that the government belonged to…

In today’s America we are witnessing the divide between political standpoints of individual state governments and the federal government. With hot button topics such as gun laws and the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana and the varying laws pertaining to these topics from state to state, one might recall why in this great country of ours do our states and local governments reserve the right to have different standpoints and sign in different laws on the same topics and issues. It…

Aragon. The first act could not be supported as an act of treason but when More didn’t take the oath and swear his allegiance to the parliamentary to support the annulment of Catherine, King Henry had More arrested and imprisoned for treason. More was tried in front of a panel of judges, including Anne Boleyn’s family members. His unwillingness to take the oath and support something he didn’t believe in led More to be found guilty under the Treason Act 1534 for not accepting the validity of the…

1892 was an important event in history that unexpectedly changed America. The short term effects of the Homestead Strike affected the lives of many steel workers. After the Homestead Strike, the strikers were charged with murder and arrested for treason. For example, the State Militia was put into…

Patriots or Treasonists? The colonists were patriots because they wanted to gain independence and do what was best for the people in the colonies. While they were under control by the British they weren’t offered or given many rights. Many people from the colonies thought that they could create a better government and life for the people. The colonist weren’t treated fairly and they thought that if they had independence, the colonists would have better lives. People in the colonies weren’t…

judiciary, stability should be re-established among a criminal and his/her victims. This only means that the criminal is required to compensate the victim’s family in every way equally or sometimes more. When it comes to capital punishment for murder or treason, it is not very easy for a family or the home country to just give imprisonment to the criminal. As the saying goes “an eye for an eye” which is also called the law of retaliation, is the belief that an individual who has hurt another…

Lots of times in life people have to make a decision that might not benefit themselves, but they know it is not overall the best choice. This is what happened with Thomas More. He was ordered to sign an oath which would make Henry VIII the head of the English Church, and chose to remain silent. By doing this in England at the time, More was sent to prison and wouldn’t be released unless he signed the oath. When More stayed silent, he was tried and found guilty fairly quickly, and was put to…

Hung in front of a crowd, stoned in the middle of a courtyard, or guillotined, methods of crime and punishment in the Elizabethan era were very different from the practices that are executed in today’s day, varying all the way from different types of crimes to their types of punishments and the laws that have been implemented to prevent them from happening as frequently. From 1558 to 1603, people endured these horrendous punishments for typical crimes that would serve nothing more than a fine in…