by nomo » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:02 pm
<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>You can see their quandary though. You've captured and tortured all these innocents, now what? If you release them, they could sue you.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1554541.htm">www.abc.net.au/news/newsi...554541.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>US to extend military executions rules to Guantanamo Bay<br><br>By North America correspondent Michael Rowland<br><br>The US military is clearing the way for executions of condemned terror suspects to take place at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.<br><br>The army has just changed the rules governing the location of military executions.<br><br>The new regulations are primarily aimed at service personnel sentenced to death at a military court martial.<br><br>Previously executions could only take place at a military jail in Kansas but now death sentences can be carried out anywhere, including the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.<br><br>The army has confirmed the new rules will also apply to any Guantanamo detainee sentenced to death at a specially convened military tribunal.<br><br>The move worries anti-death penalty campaigner David Elliot.<br><br>"The death penalty should not work in a sequestered manner where the public can not see what's happening," he said.<br><br>None of the 10 terror suspects charged with war crimes, including South Australian David Hicks, are facing the death penalty, although it could be sought in future cases. <p></p><i></i>
