Then I saw his cabin and grave in the Lake Placid, NY area (a few years before the '80 Olympics) and was really confused about the treason thing.
That's always puzzled me, too. How do you commit treason against a state you weren't born in and had never lived in? As if the murder charges weren't enough to send him to the gallows, they had to toss in bogus 'treason against the Commonwealth' charges. That would be like charging every German, Japanese, and Italian POW during WW2 with treason and executing them.