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and almost penniless.

More modern traitors like Johnny Walker, his brother Arthur, his best friend, and his son made a cottage industry of treason. Beginning in the late 60s Walker used his position in the Navy to sell large amounts of Secret data to the Soviet Union during the height of the Viet Nam Conflict and for years afterward. Not content just to sell information he had access to, Walker brought the other members into his conspiracy. And was able to avoid detection for many years by falsifying information and reports necessary for his continued Security Clearances. He was finally caught when his ex-wife went to the FBI out of concern for their son. In a prison interview, Walker attempted to downplay the information his group had sold to the Soviet Union, by saying it had not directly caused the loss of life of one American soldier in Viet Nam. His deep denial allowed him to gloss over the knowledge that the Soviets undoubtedly shared information obtained from him with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. The full extent of the damage to the US and loss of life of American servicemen, caused by Walker and his co-conspirators will probably never be known.

The damage caused to the safety and security of the United States by the Walkers, Pelham, and numerous others who have been caught and convicted of treason since the late 60s is beyond measurement. In many cases, after capture and conviction, these individuals and others have bragged about their betrayal of a nation, how easy it had been for them to accomplish their deceptions, and the financial rewards received for their actions. Almost, always glossing over the actual damage done to the nation. Possibly in an effort to keep from facing the actual ramifications of their actions, and cowardly personal responsibility.

These individuals, men and women alike, deserve no less than the maximum penalty allowed by law which is the death sentence. Their actions place them among the most reprehensible in society, right alongside serial murderers. None of them should be allowed to plea bargain their way into a life sentence in a maximum security prison at taxpayer expense. While it is never easy to know the full extent of the information they've sold, you can have reasonable knowledge of everything they had access to. And in these situations, a nation must err on the side of caution, and assume they've sold everything they had access to. Once an individual has been convicted of treason, he or she should be executed as soon as possible. The costs of their actions to our country literally costs millions of dollars and often years of effort to undo. No one deserves to be executed as much as a traitor.

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