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by carsongross 3246 days ago
Apparently the "shrillest" moment of the "red scare" was correctly convicting two communist spies of treason.
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Neither of them were convicted for "treason".
Quoting the judge, when handing down the death sentences:

I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason.

Fascinating. Neither were convicted of "treason", the requirements of which are, alone among crimes, spelled out in the main text of the Constitution.