eligible for death penalty?

Question

do you think that the 5 soldiers that raped and killed the iraqi girl/woman and her family face the death penalty?

Answer 1

According to the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice), which applies to all US service members, premeditated murder is a capital offense. If these Soldiers are found guilty of murder by a military court, they may receive the death penalty. However, as someone already mentioned, the military hasn't put anyone to death in a long, long time.

As a Soldier serving in Iraq myself, my opinion is that they definitely should receive the death penalty (if found guilty). The sheer savagery of what was done to that family is disgusting no matter what the circumstances were. Moreover, the military needs to hold a higher standard than the civilian population, especially while deployed. Those Soldiers were basically ambassadors to the Iraqi people, and instead of trying to improve our situation over here, they decided to do something hateful and cause damage to the reputation of all American Soldiers.

Of course, I don't know all the details of the case, but I do know that almost every Iraqi citizen wants to see those five boys hanged. Whatever was done, or not done, to that girl and her family, there are hundreds, if not thousands, more people who are willing to shoot at, bomb, or otherwise cause the death of American Soldiers.

Answer 2

This is one of those questions that everyone will have a totally different opinion on, and rightly so. It is very controversial. While I do think they should be punished for raping the girl, how do we justify punishing them for killing people when that is what they have been trained to do and is the reason we are over there? I am not saying what they did was right, but we have given them plenty of time to prepare, and now we should just absolutely destroy the entire area. Innocents should have left knowing what could happen. Had we done that a long time ago, our soldiers would all be home and this behavior would not have had the opportunity to present itself. Again, not everyone will agree with my OPINION.

Answer 3

The last American serviceman sentenced to death and executed was a US Army Private charged with desertion during WW2. I don't think the military will start giving the death penalty again. However, they might spend a long time in the military prison at Ft.Leavenworth.

From the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ):

918. ART. 118. MURDER

Any person subject to this chapter whom without justification or excuse, unlawfully kills a human being, when he--

(1) has a premeditated design to kill;

(2) intends to kill or inflict great bodily harm;

(3) is engaged in an act which is inherently dangerous to others and evinces a wanton disregard of human life; or

(4) is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of burglary, sodomy, rape, robbery, or aggravated arson; is guilty of murder, and shall suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct, except that if found guilty under clause (1) or (4), he shall suffer death or imprisonment for life as a court-martial may direct.

920. ART. 120. RAPE AND CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who commits an act of sexual intercourse with a female not his wife, by force and without consent, is guilty of rape and shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

(b) Any person subject to this chapter who, under circumstances not amounting to rape, commits an act of sexual intercourse with a female not his wife who has not attained the age of sixteen years, is guilty of carnal knowledge and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(c) Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete either of these offenses.

Answer 4

The Army has filed capital charges against them. This means that if convicted they face a possible death penalty.

Answer 5

they are eligible for the death penalty. whether or not they actually die is another story (even if they are sentenced to death). us military has much stricter rules of conduct and the death penalty can apply in cases that it wouldn't if it were a civillian case. kind of the same thing as automatic death penalty if you kill a cop. military has to be held to a higher standard.
and the military does NOT own the judicial system. besides, they won't even go through the standard judicial system, they will go through the military courts duh.

Answer 6

risky - imagine it by potential of for a minute. once you've someone evil adequate to molest a baby, that is possibly a straightforward assumption that the baby's interests at the instantaneous are not accurate of their thoughts. in case you compromise for that argument, then imagine now that someone has purely molested a baby, they have 2 lifelike alternatives: a million. launch the baby and totally understand that's going to bypass to an individual, rfile them and they are going to be arrested and complete. 2. Kill the baby - regardless of in the adventure that they are eventually stuck, they could't be complete two times!! I easily ought to say i imagine a wide sort of youngsters must be molested and then murdered - because it must be contained in the molesters interest. a minimum of that way they could spoil out with it. It relies upon slightly what your priorities are, in case you're prepared for added children to be murdered after being molested, then sure, you could make the punishment for molestation the same as for homicide. VERY regrettably, contained in the united kingdom, that's truly the case even as children are molested - and for this reason, they're only about continually killed. Older ones - the position consequences at the instantaneous are not fairly so extreme - are frequently allowed to stay. Your different concepts (castration, penal complex time) must be safer for the children. regardless of you do, I propose you would possibly want to ascertain that that is contained in the interests of the molester to launch the baby so it may stay. it's going to be exciting to be sure what different reasoned factors, individuals can arise with.

Answer 7

This is a bad question because I can guarantee you that nobody here including myself know the whole story. If we did, we would probably be participating in the case.

Answer 8

Assuming they're found guilty, then yes, they should be eligible.

-j.

Answer 9

murder is a capital offense in the UCMJ, so yes, they can get it.

Answer 10

not possible, these r us soldiers witch means they r in da us gov witch owns da judicial system, u no wat im gettin at?