Could a suicide bombers actions be classed as treason and therefore hung acording to UK law?

High treason was deemed greater than any other offence, and was often subject to extraordinary punishment, because it threatened the security of the state. A particularly horrific manner of execution known as hanging, drawing and quartering was often employed.
somehow I don't see a death sentence as a deterent to a SB
I personally think anyone who commits a terrorist offence against a state for which they own a passport is committing treason.Which I believe is the only crime in the UK which can still carry a death sentence but I'm not certain of this.I don't know of anyone who has been executed in UK for decades.well by the govt at any rate.
Any one who commits an act of terrorism should, if found guilty,hanged
Hi,

I think you will find that a 'treasonous act' in the UK must be done by someone who is British otherwise it is not classed as treason.

Or for that matter in any country when someone turns against his own government.

It is the same as mutiny on a ship.
As a crew they are treated as a whole, irrespective of nationality and the ship is their home, the Captain their ruler/leader.

A suicide bomber from another country would just be classed as a terrorist.

Skip
A lawyer could give us the exact definition of treason and high treason, but it is certain that having a British passport and waging war (by arms or voice) on this country qualifies for the category - it was because William Joyce's British passport was unexpired when he began broadcasting for Germany in the 2WW that he could be convicted and hanged. He never took arms or plotted violence at all - just spoke.

This implies that all those (I met plenty) who hoped, and said, that we would get a bloody nose in the Falklands were treacherous. In turn, this implies that the treason law is a dead letter. Legal opinion seems to have quietly changed between 1945 and the time of the Falklands war. I think that in practice treason is an obsolete concept, and execution an even more obsolete penalty.
Treason no longer carries the death penalty. It was abolished around 10 years ago athough the myth still remains that yuo can.

Sorry to be boring, but there you go!


Answer:
The death penality was abolished in the 1990's in the UK.
i very much doubt a suicide bomber would be bothered about being hung drawn and quartered as they have more than likely blown themselves up, but i think we should bring back the death penalty for terrorists, rapists, murderers and paedophiles.
1st, you have to be a citizen, to be chged w/ treason....
I wish, man would i apply for the executioners job lol
Problem is, your average suicide bomber is blown to bits and quite dead once he has pulled the rip-cord.
In English law high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women), the only crime which attracted those penalties (until the Treason Act ) The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory, subject to the royal prerogative of mercy. Since the abolition of the death penalty for murder in 1965 an execution for treason was unlikely to be carried out. Treason laws were used against Irish insurgents before Irish independence. However, IRA and other republican guerrillas were not prosecuted or executed for treason for levying war against the British government during the Troubles. They, along with loyalist militants, were jailed for murder, violent crimes or terrorist offences.

William Joyce was the last person to be put to death for treason, in 1946. (On the following day Theodore Schurch was executed for treachery, a similar crime, and was the last man to be executed for a crime other than murder in the UK.)