10 Years For Assasination
I only just saw this story. I dont know if theres already been a thread on it, if so i apologise.
I dont know any more than this story provides, so maybe you can fill me in. Why only 10 years for killing someone, and then planting a gun on them ? I thought you guys put people to the chair for that. I would have at least expected a life sentence. So basically what i am wondering is why not ? Why only 10 years ?
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US sniper jailed for Iraqi murder
The Iraqi man had stumbled across a group of hiding snipers
A US army sniper has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for murder without premeditation after he killed an Iraqi civilian and planted evidence on him.
In May 2007, Sgt Evan Vela shot Genei Nasir al-Janabi, after the man saw him and other US snipers hiding near the town of Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.
After the killing Vela planted an AK-47 on the Iraqi's body.
Vela had admitted to killing Mr Janabi, but tried to say it was an accident, blaming sleep deprivation.
His defence argued that Vela had shot the man because he was acutely sleep deprived, having slept for less than five hours in three days whilst out in hostile terrain.
And that he had lied about the incident afterwards partly because he had been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
Vela had been initially been charged with premeditated murder, but that was changed in the course of his court martial in Baghdad.
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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | US sniper jailed for Iraqi murder
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02-14-2008, 02:25 AM
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