Sorry, read your comment wrong.
It is interesting Ike was still in the loop for these two. The current case should receive the max penalty also, to be sure. However, it remains to be seen. All the spies we have tried were civilians and not met the ultimate penalty.
Only spies tied, convicted and executed were the Rosenberg’s and that was a few years back too.
Coincidentally, there is a lauding, adulating article in the New Yorker mag/rag about this case. They portray the Wikileak founder as some type of god because he hates America.