[Virginia-American]

I'm willing to bet (knowing the bet can't be tested) that you could easily find a dozen people in America today who would gladly go to their deaths for the proposition that Al Gore was the true winner of the 2000 election. Pick a cause (globalization, the whale, the redwoods, whatever), you'll find some zealots who will die for it.

Think of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Julius and Ethel died to protect their spy rings. They were (evil and misguided) patriots of the Soviets. They ran a big ring targeting the radar industry.