Professor Larson Helps Reuters Challenge Online Claim About Punishment for Treason

“Public hanging” is not a punishment for treason despite claims in a video shared online, Professor Carlton F.W. Larson told Reuters Fact Check in March. 

“It’s entirely false,” Larson said.

Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history. One of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason, Professor Larson is the author of the ABA Silver Gavel Award finalist books The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2019) and On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020).