Treachery Act 1940 10 July 1941. Duncan Scott-Ford was also executed for treachery in November 1942. German agent Josef Jakobs, the last person to be executed in the Tower of London, was court-martialled and executed by firing squad under this Act. The last person to be executed under the Treachery Act was the British soldier Theodore Schurch, executed on 4 January 1946, who was the last person to be executed in the United Kingdom for an offence other than murder. A seventeenth person, Portuguese diplomat Rogerio de Magalhaes Peixoto de Menezes, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted by the Home
Josef Mašín one, aptly named "Tři Králové" ("Three Kings"), is the most known among the Czech public. Mašín was captured by the Gestapo on May 13, 1941. After being tortured, he twice attempted suicide. As part of the German retaliatory measures for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich he was executed in Prague, aged 45. His body was disposed of at Strašnice Crematorium. His wife was imprisoned for several months. After the war, Josef Mašín received a posthumous promotion to Brigadier General. His sons - then 13 and 15 years old - got Medals for "personal bravery during the war" from president Edvard