Show me the charges against them as such, the trial in which those charges were weighed, and the conviction declaring their guilt. Otherwise you have no demonstration of your alleged crime.
I don't have to do that. The attorney general called them traitors. The Supreme Court called secessionists generally traitors.
They weren't hanged out of the magnaminity of the victors and for no other reason.
Do you think anyone worth convincing would be convinced by your statement? Can you possibly believe it yourself?
Walt
Yes you do. The burden of proving guilt under the common reading of law is always on the accuser. As it stands you have not satisfied this burden. Thus your claim of having established a crime is a false one.