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May 18th,
2009 - Penalty Phase of Ex-Soldier’s Trial Nearing End |
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Penalty Phase
of Ex-Soldier’s Trial Nearing End From the Associated Press May 18, 2009 Paducah, Ky. - Testimony is
scheduled to resume in the penalty phase of a former soldier who faces a
possible death sentence for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the
shooting of her family. Defense attorneys for former
Pfc. Steven Dale Green are expected to conclude their case Monday or Tuesday,
with closing arguments and jury deliberations scheduled to begin Wednesday in
federal court in western Kentucky. A jury convicted the
24-year-old Green on May 7 of rape, murder and other charges in the death of
14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and the shooting death of her family in
Mahmoudiya, Iraq, about 20 miles south of Baghdad in March 2006. A nine-woman, three-man
panel will decide if Green should be sentenced to death or imprisoned for
life. © 2009 The Associated Press External link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6428867.html |