Adrian Weale
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Adrian Weale
In the 20th century only four British citizens were convicted of the ancient crime of High Treason and only two of these—Roger Casement and John Amery—suffered what was, until 1998, the only penalty allowed by the law: execution.
During the First World War, Casement, a retired British consular official knighted by King Edward VII for his humanitarian work in Africa and South America, attempted to recruit a brigade of Irish prisoners of war to liberate Ireland after German victory on the Western front. In the Second World War, Amery, the son of Churchill’s…
