In 1807 ERICK BALLMAN and SAMUEL SWARTWONT were committed to prison in the District of Columbia, on a charge of high treason against the United States. The prisoners were brought by a writ of ...

Sometimes the best government operatives are the ones who initially seem ill-suited for the job. Such is the case in ...

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Falling home prices, high consumer debt, and the global economic slowdown compounded the UK’s economic problems, pushing the economy into recession in the latter half of 2008 and prompting the ...

Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine hints at the possibility of dropping treason felony charges against social activist Oliver ...

Thomas Erskine was called to the bar in the 1778. As with many lawyers in our legal heritage, his cases were significant not ...

Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling ...

“The Moscow City Court found Dmitry Arkadyevich Shatresov… guilty of committing high treason in favour of the United States. It was established that Shatresov D.A., having obtained by illegal methods ...

“The Moscow City Court found Dmitry Arkadyevich Shatresov… guilty of committing high treason in favor of the United States,” TASS cited Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying.

THE Treason Trial is now a byword in South ... color-bar country would have been in a position of high authority. He once visited the United States on behalf of the Christian Council of South ...

The seceding states never sought dissolution of the United States but rather wished to exercise their reserved right to peacefully exit the voluntary compact they entered. Not a single Confederate, ...