Kentucky District Court handed down the sentence life imprisonment without possibility of pardon, a former member of the U.S. Army Stephen D. Green (24) for the rape and murder of Iraqi girl and killing members of her family in March 2006.
After a trial for murder, rape and obstruction of the investigation, Green was convicted in April on all 17 counts. He was tried as a civilian because due to "personality disorder" otpušen from the army before the crime was discovered.
Given that the jurors could not agree on the sentence, Greene's "near miss" avoid the death penalty, and he was a judge Thomas Russell sentenced life in prison.
Greene was the leader of a group of five American soldiers who, with intent to rape 14-year Iračanku Abiram Qasim Hamza al Džanabi, 12 March 2006. broke into the house of her family in Mahmudiji, 30 kilometers away south of Baghdad.
While the three soldiers alternately raped girl, Greene was killed by her mother, father and six-year old sister. Then he raped Abiram, and then she was shot three times in the head and burned the body, heard at the trial whose testimony portions news agency Reuters.
Three of the four other soldiers have pleaded guilty, while the fourth was convicted before a military court. Certain their sentence from five to 100 years in prison.
Among the numerous incidents in which American troops took part this is the only one who has caused outrage and anger Iraqis and led to tightening relations between the United States from Baghdad.
Relatives of the slain family attended the trial and said that Green "cowards that will pursue its work." "Person and innocent girls, that person will watch in a dark cell where he will be the last day of life," said the uncle, killed the Iraqi girl Abiram Qasim Hamza al Džanabi during the hearing.
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