herbert john burgman was the last person convicted for treason in the united states, regardless of sentencing date.
herbert john burgman was the last person convicted for treason in the united states, regardless of sentencing date.
last person convicted for treason in the united states, regardless of sentencing date?
herbert john burgman
bullet::::- robert henry best, convicted of treason on april 16, 1948 and served a life sentence.









































bullet::::- iva toguri d'aquino, who is frequently identified by the name "tokyo rose", convicted 1949. subsequently, pardoned by president gerald ford.









































bullet::::- mildred gillars, also known as "axis sally", convicted of treason on march 8, 1949; served 12 years of a 10- to 30-year prison sentence.









































bullet::::- tomoya kawakita, sentenced to death for treason in 1952, but eventually released by president john f. kennedy to be deported to japan.









































bullet::::- herbert john burgman, convicted of treason in 1949 during wwii for spreading nazi propaganda.
list of people convicted of treason
although approximately two-thirds of crack cocaine users are white or hispanic, a large percentage of people convicted of possession of crack cocaine in federal courts in 1994 were black. in 1994, 84.5% of the defendants convicted of crack cocaine possession were black while 10.3% were white and 5.2% were hispanic. possession of powder cocaine was more racially mixed with 57% of the offenders being white, 26.7% black, and 15% hispanic. within the federal judicial system, a person convicted of possession with intent to distribute powder cocaine carries a five-year sentence for quantities of 500 grams or more while a person convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine faces a five-year sentence for quantities of five grams or more. with the combination of severe and unbalanced drug possession laws along with the rates of conviction in terms of race, the judicial system has created a huge racial disparity. in 2015 sitting president barack obama visited a federal prison (a presidential first) to discuss how disparate sentencing affected prisoners and highlight how in the u.s. excessive sentencing was a detrimental outcome of harsh sentencing laws and the need to change the approach. in the senate top republican and democratic senators, in a rare bi-partisan effort, negotiated for months to produce concrete fixes to these laws. the law was changed in 2010 to reduce disparity; it affected only new cases. the need, according to senate, was for a retroactive fix to reduce the thousands serving unjustly long sentences after four decades of extreme sentencing policies. studies have shown it is possible to reduce both prison populations and crime at the same time. the u.s. sentencing commission announced a retroactive reduction in drug sentences following a year-long review, which will result in a mass release of 6,000 prisoners, all of whom have already served substantial time in prison. this action was done in an effort to immensely reduce overcrowding and provide comfort to wrongfully-accused drug offenders who were sent to jail over the past couple decades. some of those to be released will be deported and all will be subject to further judicial review.
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