Conspiracy is just a form of accomplice liability, it's an agreement to do something criminal. The criminal thing, the main thing, was espionage. The Espionage Act, 18 USC sec 794, provides for the death penalty, 794(a), and it has a conspiracy provision, 794(c), which says that all the conspirators get the same penalty, The R's were the last people capitally convicted under this law, which was codified differently at the time. jks
--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>
> Be that as it may, death for espionage with an
> _ally_,
> remember when JR spied for the Russiabs trhey were
> our
> friends and they were saving our ass, taking 25m
> dead
> to stp the Nazis, well, that's a problem even for
> people who believe in capital punishment for
> murderers.
> *******
>
> I don't mean to nitpick. I remain unclear on what
> the Rosenbergs were
> executed for. I was a child at the time. I just
> remember seeing
> Julius and Ethel getting into a truck of some kind.
> I thought they
> were convicted of "conspiracy". I wasn't aware that
> the powers that
> were, convicted them of espionage.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone for clearing this up for
> me. I think
> that's my three posts for the day.
>
> Mike B)
>
>
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