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Fm Wiki: On 20 November 2006, Lieutenant General John Vines, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, affirmed the death sentence against Hasan Akbar. Under an automatic appeal because of the sentence, the case was forwarded to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals. If the appeal fails, his case will automatically be appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals for the Armed Forces. It was heard in 2012 but the ruling has not been issued yet, as of February 28, 2013.

Akbar has a final right of appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to the military justice system, once Akbar's appeals are exhausted, if the conviction and sentence stand, the President of the United States (in his role as the Commander in Chief) must order the execution, which will be done by lethal injection.

We'll see who the president stands with then.