[RetiredArmy]

This is how military law works: If a punitive discharge or more than one year in jail is given, a case is AUTOMATICALLY sent to the court of military review. After the CMR has reviewed the case, and if they do not bust the case and send it back to the convening authority to redo or whatever they busted it for, then it can be appealed to the Court of Military Appeal (COMA). After they review the case, the puke can still take it into the federal system. I know of individuals who were given the death penalty as far back as the 1980s and they have not been executed yet. Back in 1984 they redid the Manual for Courts-Martial (for short we called it MCM 1984 revised, since revised again). That 1984 revision had to fix some busted case that declared things wrong, and I think the death penalty was part of it, it has been a long time, but I think that was one of the reasons. So, yes, this thing is going to be in the appeals system for a very long time.

[OldCorps]

Ahhh, the venerable 1984 MCM, signed by Ronald Reagan. Remember it well.

[sig226]

What were the death penalty cases that you recall? Were they murders committed by servicemen, what would have been a typical street murder had the killer been a civilian?

I ask because I suspect (hope) that this killer will be treated as something other than a common street thug. I hope that since he attacked other soldiers while we were at war, he will be regarded as a traitor and he will be killed without delay. Is this a possibility?