Why do people think that robert hanssen should get the death penalty?”
Robert Philip Hanssen (born 1944 April 18) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for more than twenty years. Despite the fact that he revealed highly sensitive security information to the Soviet Union, federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for his guilty pleas to fifteen espionage and conspiracy charges. He is serving a life sentence at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, where he spends twenty-three hours a day in solitary confinement. Hanssen was arrested on 2001 February 18 at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a twenty-two year period. On 2001 July 6, he pleaded guilty to fifteen counts of espionage in federal court. He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without parole. His activities have been described as “possibly the worst intell
