re: #147 Sergey Romanov

Three reasons why nope:

1. There should be no death penalty, period.

2. Life in prison is deterrence enough for espionage.

3. Hanging “white collar” spies (or “spies”) like Manning or Pollard, who did it out of apparent ideological convictions, is certainly not good for overall morale (unless one is a wingnut; also see 2).

#2 doesn’t seem to be working out very well
#3 When you ignore multiple pledges to your nation in order to provide info to another that’s treason and deserves the highest form of punishment.

#4 Rope.