[News] Sixty-Five Years Without an Execution: How the Military Death Penalty Reached Nidal Hasan, and What Still Stands Before Dec. 3
A court-martial death sentence needs a president's signature, and before this month only one had been signed since 1961; the Army's own regulation left the method open, and a federal habeas court could still hold Dec. 3 back.
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