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Death Penalty Trial to Resume for KSM

Kevin Spak — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:29:37 CDT

The long-delayed effort to put alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed on trial lurched forward today, when the Pentagon approved a death penalty trial for Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators, the Washington Post reports. The trial will be conducted by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, with an arraignment...

Death Penalty May Await Soldier in Afghan Killings

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:00:04 CDT

The US soldier accused of gunning down 16 Afghan civilians near Kandahar may himself be killed for the crime, a military defense attorney tells MSNBC . "Based on what we’re hearing I suspect this will be prosecuted as a death penalty case," says Philip Cave, who is based in Washington. "You’ve...

Prosecution Links Manning to Assange

Mark Russell — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:57:18 CST

Prosecutors unveiled a damning litany of evidence yesterday at a pretrial hearing linking Bradley Manning to the massive leak of government materials posted on WikiLeaks, reports the Washington Post. The trove includes chat logs between Manning and Julian Assange, testimony that Manning's computers contained more than 100,000 State Department...

Bradley Manning Military Hearing Enters 3rd Day

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:20:26 CST

Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing rolled on today with witnesses testifying about lax US military security and a scuffle Manning had with a fellow soldier, CNN reports. Prosecution witnesses said Manning, an "outcast" in his Iraqi unit, should have lost his security clearance after assaulting a female intelligence analyst, the Guardian...

Obama Throws Away Civil Liberties With Defense Bill

Kevin Spak — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:58:25 CST

President Obama is taking a lot of heat today for dropping his threat to veto a controversial defense bill that could allow the military to capture and indefinitely detain American citizens on US soil. In a fiery editorial, the New York Times today called it "a complete political cave-in, one...

Hasan Faces Military Trial, Death Penalty

Kevin Spak — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:49:27 CDT

Nidal Hasan, the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, will face a military trial and could, if convicted, be sentenced to death, Fort Hood's commanding general announced today. Hasan's lawyers had tried to convince the military that a death penalty case would be too expensive, time consuming, and restrictive,...

New Charges Filed Against KSM

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:14:05 CDT

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and four alleged co-conspirators face new conspiracy and murder charges filed today by US military prosecutors. All five defendants were originally charged during George W. Bush’s presidency, but those charges were dropped when President Obama attempted to move the trials into...

Military Court Less Likely to Sentence KSM to Death

Kevin Spak — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:25:04 CDT

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is dying to be executed. He’s confessed to plotting the 9/11 attacks and a host of other terrorist activity, and said he’d like to be a martyr. But that’s significantly less likely to happen now that he’ll be tried by a military commission, the LA Times reports....

Cowardice Wins In Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Trial

Kevin Spak — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:36:05 CDT

Eric Holder’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a military tribunal is “a victory for Congressional pandering and an embarrassment for the Obama administration, which failed to stand up to it,” the New York Times declares in a scathing editorial today. The administration’s original plan to try...