Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, an interrogator for the Army, was convicted of negligent homicide for murdering a prisoner of war, an Iraqi general in the custody of the US. He beat the man with a hose, put him headfirst into a sleeping bag, and sat on his chest until he suffocated. He claims that he was following orders.
I suppose that he might not have intended to kill the man, just to torture him, and that might explain the seemingly lenient verdict.
I hope he never moves into my neighborhood.
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