U.S. soldier sentenced to death

[UCLA Dem]

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) -- A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier, stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He showed no emotion.

He could have been sentenced to life in prison with or without parole for the early morning March 2003 attack, which also wounded 14 fellow members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

The 15-person military jury, which last week took just two and a half hours to convict Akbar of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, deliberated for about seven hours in the sentencing phase. After jurors reached a verdict, they voted on whether to reconsider the decision after one juror asked that they do so...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/28/akbar.trial.ap/index.html

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Wow! That's some serious shit.

But I'm confused. This was next to the last paragraph...

"If given a death sentence, Hasan Akbar would join five others on the military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The last U.S. military execution was in 1961."

So did he get the death sentence or not.

[UCLA Dem]

2. here's the following paragraph (had to follow the 4 paragraph rule)

"The sentence will be reviewed by a commanding officer and automatically appealed. If Akbar is executed, it would be by lethal injection."

Yes, he was sentanced to death.

[NickB79]

3. We sentence one soldier to death for killing fellow US soldiers

But let dozens more go with a slap on the wrist for killing innocent Iraqis?

:wtf:

[nodehopper]

4. this is a dupe...locking

see here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1431876&mesg_id=1431876&page=