A US federal jury will determine whether former soldier Steven Dale Green should be executed for raping an Iraqi teenager and executing the girl and her family, court officials said.
It took the jurors less than two days of deliberations to find Green guilty on all 17 criminal counts, which included rape, premeditated murder and obstruction of justice.
Three other soldiers were given life sentences in the March 2006 atrocity that was devised over whiskey and a game of cards at a traffic check point in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad.
Josef Fritzl: The 73-year-old Austrian engineer pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him, including negligent homicide and enslavement. he also admitted the responsibility for the death of one of the seven children he fathered with her. For the first time since his arrest last April, he also expressed regret for what he had done.
The number of people grilled by police over hoax Internet warnings of school shootings across Europe rose to four on Friday, two days after a teenager shot dead 15 people in Germany.
The latest hoaxes came after it was separately revealed that the perpetrator of Wednesday’s bloodbath, Tim Kretschmer, had probably not given an Internet warning — contrary to what investigators had previously been led to believe.
Those behind the message that officials initially believed was a chilling warning by Kretschmer — citing weapons and intent to go to his old school in Winnenden — have yet to be discovered.
PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania prosecutor said his hands are tied, and he has no choice but to charge an 11-year-old boy as an adult in the killing his father’s pregnant girlfriend.
Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said Monday that Pennsylvania law doesn’t permit him to file a criminal homicide charge against Jordan Brown in juvenile court.
Brown is charged as an adult with using his own 20-gauge shotgun to kill 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk Friday morning.
The gun was a Christmas gift from the boy’s father, who was training him to be a hunter, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.
