Sentences with phrase «punishment of treason»

And to this end, it may provide for the punishment of treason, the suppression of insurrection or rebellion and for the putting - down of all individual or concerted attempts to obstruct or interfere with the discharge of the proper business of government...

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

Not exact matches

Venezuela defines treason as conspiring with foreign enemies against the state and proscribes punishment of up to 30 years in prison.

Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty trial.

Christ's crucifixion at the hands of the Roman Empire is at the centre of the book's thesis: it was a punishment reserved for criminals who had committed acts of treason against the state.

Employed as the most stringent punishment for treason, damnatio memoriae physically razes all traces of an individual from society, typically through the destruction a statue's physiognomy or the abrasion of inscribed monuments.

Such as if a US judge instructed to the effect of «if anyone speaks ill of X then they are guilty of treason, the punishment for which is torture and death» it would be reasonable (some might argue imperative) for the jury to reject this.