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United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute houses the primary execution chamber for military executions. The use of capital punishment by the United States military is a legal punishment in martial criminal justice. Despite its legality, capital punishment has not been imposed by the U.S. military in over sixty years.
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.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 provides that only military judges will sentence defendants in non-capital cases (and for non-capital offenses in a capital case) after December 27, 2023; defendants may no longer elect member sentencing for non-capital charges after December 27.
The USDB is the U.S. military's only maximum-security facility that houses male service members convicted at court-martial for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Only enlisted prisoners with sentences over ten years, commissioned officers, and prisoners convicted of offenses related to national security are
For offenses related to their service, members of the military are usually tried in courts-martial that apply the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and may order the death penalty as a possible sentence for some crimes. Military commissions may also be established in the field in time of war to expeditiously try and sentence enemy ...
Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. [1] [2] Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including ...
United States military jury. A United States military "jury" (or "members", in military parlance) serves a function similar to an American civilian jury, but with several notable differences. Only a general court-martial (which may impose any sentences, from dishonorable discharge to death [1]) or special court-martial (which can impose ...
During wartime, the crimes carry considerably larger sentence ranges and, if the crime causes the danger to the military unit, the sentence range is even harsher. For example, desertion carries, in the peacetime, a sentence of disciplinary punishment or up to one year in prison.
W. Erich Wagner. Horace T. West. Categories: People convicted by United States military courts. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by military courts. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by United States jurisdictions.
This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms.