Fort Hood Attack

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From the book "The Castle" a book about Levinworth:

"In late January, the Department of the Army issued a set of regulations governing the U.S. military's use of the death penalty. "This publication is a major revision," said Sandra Riley, an administrative assistant to the secretary of the army. "This regulation establishes responsibilities and updates policy and procedures for carrying out a sentence of death as imposed by general courts-martial or military tribunals." This "little-noticed move," as the Reuters news service described it, is the first public announcement by the military of a policy that it has been quietly implementing for several years-slowly placing soldiers on its version of death row.

While the civilian death penalty is coming under greater scrutiny and several states are considering a moratorium on executions, the U.S. military is gearing up to carry out its first execution since 1961. The death penalty was restored in the U.S. military in 1984, but it is only recently that death sentences for American soldiers related to the war in Iraq have been imposed. In March 2005, Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death for the "fragging" death of two officers in Kuwait on the eve of the Iraq War in March 2003. National Guard Sgt. Alberto Martinez also faces a possible death sentence in another fragging case stemming from the death of two officers in Iraq in June 2005."

There are currently 8 GI on Death Row at Levinworth.
Best,
Ed