Treason

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If you've read any Orson Scott Card books besides Ender's Game, you know to expect crazy things to happen. But Treason-- a reworking of the second novel Card ever wrote-- takes things to a whole new level of crazy. How crazy? Well, the hero is a mutant Highlander hermaphrodite Nazi prince, and that's before he learns earth-bending from Peter Pan. Also, the whole Nazi thing is basically only brought up in the first chapter, and is never mentioned again or otherwise resolved. Not to mention that the hero and every other character in the story are the descendants of elitist rebels marooned on a planet and forced to fight medieval wars over the scarcest resource-- iron. And the ending, which I won't spoil, gets even crazier. You can't make this stuff up... except apparently if you're Orson Scott Card. The last execution for treason in the United Kingdom was held in 1946. William Joyce (also known as Lord Haw Haw) stood accused of levying war against King George VI by travelling to Germany in the early months of World War II and taking up employment as a broadcaster of pro-Nazi propaganda to British radio audiences. He was awarded a personal commendation by Adolf Hitler in 1944 for his contribution to the German war effort. On his capture at the end of the war, Parliament rushed through the Treason Act 1945 [35] to facilitate a trial that would have the same procedure as a trial for murder. Before the Act, a trial for treason short of regicide involved an elaborate and lengthy medieval procedure. Although Joyce was born in the United States to an Irish father and an English mother, he had moved to Britain in his teens and applied for a British passport in 1933 which was still valid when he defected to Germany and so under the law he owed allegiance to Britain. He appealed against his conviction to the House of Lords on the grounds he had lied about his country of birth on the passport application and did not owe allegiance to any country at the beginning of the war. The appeal was not upheld and he was executed at Wandsworth Prison on 3 January 1946. This is a fantastic historical novel for children. Just as much period detail as Philippa Gregory and a story with excitement, journeys, family, kings and beheadings.

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The volatility of Henry VIII’s moods and whims, which could at any moment result in death, or conversely the making of one’s fortune, is well-illustrated, and the fear he instilled in his subjects is palpable. The penalty for high treason by counterfeiting or clipping coins was the same as the penalty for petty treason (which for men was drawing and hanging without the torture and quartering, and for women was burning or hanging.) [61] Individuals of noble birth were beheaded without being subjected to either form of torture. Commoners' sentences were sometimes commuted to beheading—a sentence not formally removed from British law until 1973. [62]The Treachery Act 1940 was suspended in February 1946, and was repealed in 1967. [37] 1945 to 2015 [ edit ] I was reading this part while on a bus and a guy looked over my shoulder and got quite weirded out. Don't blame him. Aside from laws relating to counterfeiting and succession, very few acts concerning the definition of high treason were passed. Under laws passed during the reign of Elizabeth I, it was high treason for an individual to attempt to defend the jurisdiction of the Pope over the English Church for a third time (a first offence being a misdemeanour and a second offence a felony), [26] or for a Roman Catholic priest to enter the realm and refuse to conform to the English Church, [1] or to purport to release a subject of his allegiance to the Crown or the Church of England and to reconcile him or her with a foreign power. [27] Charles II's Sedition Act 1661 made it treason to imprison, restrain or wound the king. Although this law was abolished in the United Kingdom in 1998, it still continues to apply in some Commonwealth countries. Under laws passed after James II was deposed, it became treasonable to correspond with the Jacobite claimants ( main article), or to hinder succession to the Throne under the Act of Settlement 1701, or to publish that anyone other than the individual specified by the Act of Settlement had the right to inherit the Crown. [28] History: after union with Scotland [ edit ]

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A rich piece of historic fiction… a wonderful story that is enhanced by the author’s expert writing style. The last treason trial was that of William Joyce, " Lord Haw-Haw", who was executed by hanging in 1946. The last conviction under a Treason Act was of Jaswant Singh Chail in 2023, who was charged with an offence relating to a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II. At the time of the trial his offences were referred to in the media as simply "treason", [3] but the statute he was charged under describes it as "a high misdemeanour". [4] Offences [ edit ] Treason’, by Berlie Doherty, is a wonderful, well-written story and she once again succeeds in producing a book that, along with being entertaining, has much to offer younger readers in terms of learning about history. Not entirely what I was expecting, yet wholly original. Orson Scott Card's pacing pulls you along at a steady clip. The world-building is vast and lurid...as is the array of moral and ethical questions that are inevitably raised. The concept itself is dense. To me, it felt almost too much so to be contained by a single book. Due to the more medieval feel and semi-mystical elements, it also spent a good deal of time feeling more like a fantasy than a sci-fi. The attempted 'romantic' elements really didn't do anything for me, personally. I don't think their removal would have lessened the piece in any way.

It is worth remembering that the 1871 Census shows 71% of the Pembrokeshire population speaking Welsh. The Treason Act 1708, section 12 (disapplied from England by the Forgery Act 1830, sections 30 and 31).

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Last one. There's a bit where he is in a cabin somewhere and he meets this girl who says that she's waiting for the right one. I honestly thought we were going to get something meaningful in this sexual travesty, but nope! Turns out, the girl is an old guy using some illusory science/magic and he makes his girl image naked, starts straddling Lanik so that she can get close enough to stab him. Through some science/magic that Lanik learned halfway through, he's able to freeze time and that allows him to see that the hot naked girl is an old guy...? And then I think he kills the guy - I really don't remember. On This Day: Sir Roger Casement sentenced to death" 29 June 2022, IrishCentral.com (retrieved 23 August 2022). See also the Treason Act 1842 (assaulting the Queen), the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989 (espionage), the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 and the Terrorism Acts. Treason (Ireland) Act 1821 (extended provisions of the 1695 Act to Ireland and still applies today in Northern Ireland)Treason won the Sheffield Award, was shortlisted for the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award and nominated for the Carnegie medal, as well as being shortlisted for many other awards, including the Blue Peter award. And I got a Blue Peter badge! Why did I write ‘Treason’?