Case was also notable as the first peace time execution for the US for espionage. Hopefully stays the last as well. Get rid of the death penalty imo.
Most often spies are just expelled and countries don’t bother prosecuting them. A lot of embassy workers that are expelled are spies with a diplomatic cover. Obviously very country to country dependent though, and it depends on the country doing the spying too.
Expels? I guess I assumed espionage==death? 😅
What else is different with this timeline?
they dont want their us embassy PNGd.
What? I don’t think spies are killed at all at least except maybe 3rd world countries
Russia and all Russian aligned nations (2nd world) absolutely kill spies.
Probably not except in times of war.
Spies are only supposed to be killed in times of war, and also, capital punishment in general is frowned upon nowadays
That’s a pretty broad statement. There’s about 8 billion people on the planet. I’m sure many still support it.
Spain is a US colony
Between friendly nations, it’s more of an ‘Oh, you!’ if noone was harmed
It’s not that common. For the US at least looks like the last time was 70 years ago about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Case was also notable as the first peace time execution for the US for espionage. Hopefully stays the last as well. Get rid of the death penalty imo.
Most often spies are just expelled and countries don’t bother prosecuting them. A lot of embassy workers that are expelled are spies with a diplomatic cover. Obviously very country to country dependent though, and it depends on the country doing the spying too.
I believe China executed some spies sometime around 2011.