2014 Event Former Egyptian President President Mohamed Mursi and nine others have been charged with giving confidential state security information to the government of Qatar; if convicted of treason, Mursi could face the death penalty 1992 Death Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die 1987 Death Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason 1977 Event Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1971 Event Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome 1963 Event Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas 1961 Event After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge 1950 Event U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage 1948 Event Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason 1946 Death William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason 1945 Event William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason 1945 Event Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason 1941 Event Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason 1895 Event French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent 1894 Event French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) 1892 Birthday Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason 1869 Event Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped 1862 Death William B Mumford, 1st U.S. citizen hanged for treason, at 42 1851 Death Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31 1847 Event Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1807 Event Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted) 1807 Event Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1795 Event William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason 1792 Event France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason 1776 Death Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged 1765 Event Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!" 1691 Death Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason 1681 Event Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London 1649 Death Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason 1645 Death William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 1635 Event Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office 1618 Death Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1601 Death Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth 1577 Event Treason of Don Juan in Brussels 1553 Event English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason 1552 Death Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason 1547 Death Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason 1535 Death Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 1535 Event Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
