A) Manafort, despite being an unbelievably corrupt piece of shit, probably doesn’t qualify for treason. It’s an incredibly narrow offense, that you pretty much have to make a serious effort to qualify for.
B) He was being sentenced for tax and bank fraud, specifically, neither of which is worth executing people for. He’s got another sentencing coming up before Judge Jackson, for his other crimes.
C) Speaking personally, I am for guillotines as an execution method, if you are going to have capital punishment. It’s foolproof, pretty humane as execution goes, and it makes it 100% obvious that a human being is being killed here, complete with gushes of arterial blood. That might stick into the craws of the people coming to observe the executions, which I consider a bonus.
