Reply #9: I want to see his recruiter held liable. And the psych person who kept him in. And the person who di

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discharged him blithely, back to the civilian world, KNOWING what he did.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/21/steven-green-spared-death_n_206538.html
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Federal prosecutor Brian Skaret told jurors during closing arguments that former Pfc. Steven Dale Green intentionally raped and killed 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi after shooting her father, mother and sister.

"He crushed that family," Skaret said of the March 2006 attack in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. "And, in doing so, he signed his own name to this death sentence."
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In his closing argument, Skaret walked jurors through a series of photos from the shooting scene, including an image of 6-year-old Hadeel al-Janabi, which showed her hair band had been blown off.
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During the sentencing phase of the trial, jurors heard from multiple witnesses that Green had little structure in his home life and little guidance from his parents. Skaret said everyone has family issues, but those issues do not lead the majority of people to attack and kill an innocent family. Despite having a rough home life, Green chose to take part in the attack on the al-Janabi family, and his upbringing shouldn't be a factor in the jury decision, Skaret said....