This is a list of people convicted of treason.
Some countries, such as the U.S., have a high constitutional hurdle to conviction for treason, while many countries, especially absolute monarchies and dictatorships, have less stringent definitions.
Read more about List Of People Convicted Of Treason: Armenia, Austria, Austria-Hungary, Canada, China, Republic of Congo, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Estonia, Fiji, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, convicted and/or treason:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“I ask whether the mere eating of human flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only a few years since was practised in enlightened England:Ma convicted traitor, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism, and suchlike heinous crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe, his bowels dragged out and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and fester among the public haunts of men!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There’s such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)