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President Bush OKs Military Execution

By Douglas A. Berman

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As detailed in this NY Times article, President Bush recently made history by approving the first execution by the military in nearly 50 years: As commander in chief, the president has the final authority to approve capital punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he did so on Monday morning in the case of Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, convicted by court-martial for two killings and an attempted murder at Fort Bragg, N.C., the White House said in a statement. Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military in 1996, no one has been executed since President Ronald Reagan reinstated capital punishment in 1984 for military crimes. The last military execution was ordered by President Dwight D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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