[demshateGod]

He’s the last one executed. Is he the last one convicted?

[jmacusa]

Ernie Slovak was the first and only American soldier at that time and since then shot for desertion. Prior to 1945 the last American soldier executed for desertion was in 1865. Eisenhower’s reason for doing so was the US Army was just coming out of the brutal fighting of The Battle of The Bulge and he was determined to set an example.