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That wasn't your point. Your point was that that Assange should be executed (by the US) for treason. My reply was that only the Australians could do that because treason is a crime committed by a citizen against his or her own nation. If other nations still prefer to execute their own citizens on the grounds of "treason", so be it. They have their own laws and whether we agree with them or not is irrelevant under national sovereignty laws. What I mean is that we do not dictate other nations laws and they do not dictate ours. As I said Assange might be libel for the crime of espionage but with the exception of foreign enemy spies no one has ever been "put to death" for that crime. They have, however spent long years in prison for it.The case you mentioned in the US Army. The execution of Private Eddie Slovik, ordered by General D.W. Eisenhower in 1945, was not for treason it was for desertion. The two crimes are different under military law. Slovik was the unfortunate person chosen to be made an example of because desertion was taking place in alarming numbers so Ike decided he had to make a statement. The mass desertions stopped after that.The last execution for treason in the United States was that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (both United States citizens) in 1953 for passing information about nuclear weapons to the USSR.The only foreign nationals who are executed (by the USA) are for crimes that we class as felonies like murder, rape and kidnapping.
That wasn't your point. Your point was that that Assange should be executed (by the US) for treason. My reply was that only the Australians could do that because treason is a crime committed by a citizen against his or her own nation. If other nations still prefer to execute their own citizens on the grounds of "treason", so be it. They have their own laws and whether we agree with them or not is irrelevant under national sovereignty laws. What I mean is that we do not dictate other nations laws and they do not dictate ours. As I said Assange might be libel for the crime of espionage but with the exception of foreign enemy spies no one has ever been "put to death" for that crime. They have, however spent long years in prison for it.
The case you mentioned in the US Army. The execution of Private Eddie Slovik, ordered by General D.W. Eisenhower in 1945, was not for treason it was for desertion. The two crimes are different under military law. Slovik was the unfortunate person chosen to be made an example of because desertion was taking place in alarming numbers so Ike decided he had to make a statement. The mass desertions stopped after that.
The last execution for treason in the United States was that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (both United States citizens) in 1953 for passing information about nuclear weapons to the USSR.
The only foreign nationals who are executed (by the USA) are for crimes that we class as felonies like murder, rape and kidnapping.
