Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
People who were court-martialed by the United States military (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "People who were court-martialed" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
It contains numerous references to military capital cases during this period. Official File, Court Martial Cases, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, contains information on sentence confirmation dates of soldiers executed for capital crimes within the continental United States between 1942 and 1945.
Pages in category "United States Army personnel who were court-martialed" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In July 1865, four involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were executed in Washington D.C. by hanging. On September 6, 1865, two Union soldiers were hanged in Ohio for the murder of a military policeman. [14] On October 20, 1865, Confederate war criminal Champ Ferguson was hanged in Tennessee on murder charges.
A general court-martial is the only forum that may adjudge a sentence to death. Before a case goes to a general court-martial, a pretrial investigation under Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice must be conducted, unless waived by the accused; this is the equivalent to a civilian grand jury process. An accused before a general ...
Most of the cases were minor, as were the sentences. [2] Nevertheless, a clemency board, appointed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the summer of 1945, reviewed all general courts-martial where the accused was still in confinement, [2] [5] and remitted or reduced the sentence in 85 percent of the 27,000 serious cases reviewed. [2]
A US sailor who served in Japan was found guilty on Friday at a general court martial for attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted violation of a lawful general order.
Pages in category "People who were court-martialed by the United States military" This category contains only the following page.