Death Sentence
From the BBC:
‘A US soldier said to have hated America has been sentenced to death for the murder and attempted murder of comrades during the invasion of Iraq. Sgt Hasan Akbar used grenades and a rifle to kill two officers and wound 14 other personnel at a camp in Kuwait in the opening days of the war.’
‘The sentence is subject to an automatic appeal. If Akbar is eventually executed, it will be by lethal injection.’
I imply neither for or against, but, if you were a member of a CM – could you hand-down a death sentence?
To take the hypothesis a stage further, if you were commanding the body of men (women?) responsible, conceivably, for meting out a field punishment of death by firing squad, could you give the orders (or carry them out)?
Mmm….