{"id":36839,"date":"2013-07-29T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36839"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:13:39","slug":"the-pentagons-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36839","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon’s Death Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN<\/a> writes about the five military inmates currently awaiting their fate on Death Row and discusses the reasons that we haven’t executed a single one since John A. Bennett was executed in 1961 for the torture and attempted murder of a Austrian girl. Ronald Gray came closest in 2008 when President Bush signed his death warrant, but he got a last minute stay from a federal court.<\/p>\n

But a larger part of the equation appears to be the sometimes cloistered military culture, from a commanding general who can override a jury’s verdict to the routine military reshuffling of personnel, including prosecutors, defense attorneys and witnesses, every two or three years.<\/p>\n

“The military is a community of solidarity, a brotherhood and sisterhood, all to its own,” defense lawyer Teresa Norris said. “There is a real reluctance to execute fellow soldiers unless it’s absolutely the worst kind of case and this is the only way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s absolutely BS. Gray raped seven women killing four. Hasan Akbar killed two of his fellow soldiers and wounded 14 others on March 23, 2003 in the opening hours of the invasion of Hussein’s Iraq. I don’t consider either of them part of my “brotherhood” and I’m pretty sure that you’d be hard pressed to find someone in a US uniform who would. <\/p>\n

As we’ve proved here time and again at TAH, we only honor honorable service. Raping and murdering people is not honorable service. If the Hasan jury doesn’t hand down a death sentence, it won’t be because they consider him part of the brotherhood, it’s more likely a result of the reluctance in the United States these days to sentence anyone to death.<\/p>\n

Anyone who thinks that Hasan or Manning is part of the brotherhood, raise your hand. Yeah, I thought so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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