My own opinion is that if she knew of the treason, and failed to report it, she was guilty, herself. And so deserved to die. Perphaps her husband did more harm, but execution is as tough as we get.
Perhaps she couldn’t be convicted nowadays. Neither could OJ Simpson. Is this an improvement.
There’s lots of people to sympathize with, even help. But I only have so much sympathy in me. I’m not wasting it on this woman, her husband, her friends, or her children. She shoulda thought of them.
“Prehaps she couldn’t be convicted nowadays.”
Precisely my point. Certainly not of a capital offense.
But even today heinous traitors and terrorists are tried,convicted, and executed such as Timothy McVeigh. I have no problem with this. I am a strong and forceful advocate of the death penalty. There isn’t a freaking liberal bone in my body. This doesn’t mean I think every person executed deserved it. I would like to add Mary Surratt of the Lincoln conspiracy to this list.
BTW IMHO Sen. Joseph McCarthy go the biggest bum rap in U.S. History. Our government was crawling with traitors, spies, and espionage agents working for the USSR during the FDR and HST administrations.