Comments on: Treason and technology https://bradlinder.net/2007/02/treason-and-technology.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Brad Linder https://bradlinder.net/2007/02/treason-and-technology.html#comment-1457 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:14:53 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=396#comment-1457 Well, only 8 people have ever been convicted of treason in the US. For a moment I was scared, because the person I’m fact checking the article for had written a note saying that she had read somewhere that it was 40, and that we needed entries on all of them. Turns out that was just a nasty internet rumor.

Apparently it’s really difficult to prove someone guilty of treason, so charges wind up getting dropped in a lot of cases.

I’m also only up to the Civil War in this article, I wouldn’t be surprised if the penalty got changed again sometime after 1862.

]]> By: Davis Freeberg https://bradlinder.net/2007/02/treason-and-technology.html#comment-1458 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:09:36 +0000 http://bradlinder.net/?p=396#comment-1458 I can understand why they had to change the law during the Civil War, but $10,000 would be still be over $260K in today’s dollars. That’s a pretty expensive fine to have pay, especially for a bunch of farmers. It would be interesting to see how many people ended up actually sentenced during and after the Civil War.

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