Ex-US soldier guilty of rape, murder found hanged in prison
by alethoAl-Akhbar | February 19, 2014
A
former US soldier, sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2006 rape and
murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl as well as the murder of her parents
and six-year-old sister, has been found hanged in his cell.
According
to American media reports, prison officials said the death of Steven
Dale Green, found hanging in his Arizona cell last week, was currently
being investigated as an act of suicide.
Green,
28, was convicted in 2009 for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer
Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the deaths of her father, mother and
six-year-old sister in Mahmudiya, more than 30 kilometers south of
Baghdad.
He
was sentenced to life in prison after a federal jury in Kentucky could
not decide whether he should be given the death penalty.
Prosecutors
portrayed Green as the ringleader of five soldiers that plotted to
invade the home of the family of four in order to rape the girl. They
had later bragged about the crime to their peers in the army.
The
four other soldiers were taken to military courts. Three of the
soldiers pleaded guilty in the attack and the fourth was convicted. They
received sentences ranging from five to 100 years.
Green, on the other hand, was tried as a civilian because he was arrested after he was discharged from the army.
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