Qiaunci Jones - Supreme Courts Turn Down Death Penalty In Fragging Case

Army Sergeant Hasan K. Akbar was convicted and sentenced to death by a court-martial for killing two of his fellow soldiers and wounding 14 others during the attack in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Akbar is the first US soldier convicted for "fragging," intentionally killing fellow soldiers overseas during wartime, since Vietnam.  Akbar tried to get his sentence appealed, but it was a waste because his appeals were ignored.

This article was posted on October 3, 2016 which is fueling more hatred into the supreme courts. This article helped bring light into the inconsistency of Supreme Courts in two of their important death penalty precedents. The real problem with the sentence was the courts didn't look at the underlying crime of the conflict (the reason why it happened.) The writer of this article brings out the point of the Supreme Courts oblivious ways which caused more contrevarsary on Death penalties. This article synthesis with 2002 decision in Ring v. Arizona and Loving v. United States,  both involved the Supreme Courts ways of figuring out the death penalty sentences.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/politics/military-death-penalty-supreme-court/index.html