""Termination is excessive. I'd settle for an old-fashioned tar-and-feathering of the traitor."
I vote for both."
Actually a thorough tarring and feathering causes death. The large percentage of the skin is burned very badly by the hot tar, deep shock is caused by the intense pain of hot tar in close proximity to nerve endings, and removal of the tar takes a layer of skin with it exposing the flesh to infection. A very uncomfortable way to go.
Painful...but not necessarily fatal.
Read what it involves.