Word: treasonable
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What kinds of crime incurred such punishments? Murder and treason have almost always ensured death. Under the Mosaic law, capital offenses ranged from gathering sticks on the Sabbath and adultery to the sacrifice of children to the god Molech. A medieval German code decreed: "Should a coiner [counterfeiter] be caught in the act, then let him be stewed in the pan or a cauldron...
...state-controlled television called on the government to detain Smith if it could prove that he had actually urged some Western countries to stop supporting Zimbabwe. The English-language Herald posed the question, "Is this not treason?" Even some of Smith's backers among Zimbabwe's more than 200,000 whites disassociated themselves from his comments...
Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was arrested in 1977 for treason, espionage, and anti-Soviet agitation while a member of a group monitoring Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act an agreement giving citizens the right to emigrate and join their lamellas abroad...
...March 1977, Shcharansky was arrested and held incommunicado and without trial for 16 months. Despite the Soviet government's nominal constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression and the right to criticize the government, Shcharansky was then convicted of "treason and espionage" and "anti-Soviet agitation." He was punished with a sentence of 13 years in prison and labor camps...
...they upset the operations of the regular army. At least three Iranian brigades were destroyed in the early stages of the offensive; total Iranian losses during the campaign now stand at about 12,000 dead and 20,000 wounded. For their part, Islamic zealots are charging the army with treason. Says an army officer: "Tension between the guards and the army is higher than ever...