The First Congress used its constitutional power of declaring the punishment for treason by establishing the penalty of death, with seven years’ imprisonment for misprision of treason.

I’m not intimidated.” According to U.S. Code Title 18, the penalty for treason — which is defined by the Constitution as levying war against the United States or adhering to the nation’s ...

In South Jersey there was no death penalty for any crime and there were only two crimes, murder and treason, punishable by death.[9] However under the direction of the Crown, harsher penal codes ...

A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...