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John Arthur Bennett (April 10, 1936 – April 13, 1961) was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces. [1] The 19-year-old private was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. [2]
Jul 28, 2013 · Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged in 1961 at Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas, convicted of raping and attempting to kill an 11-year-old Austrian girl. The 26-year-old soldier’s execution...
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Apr 13, 2009 · 1961: John A. Bennett, the last American military execution (so far) Posted on 13 April, 2009 by Headsman. As of this date, it’s been 48 years since the United States military last carried out an execution — the Fort Leavenworth hanging* of John Arthur Bennett for rape. An epileptic black soldier with a family history of mental illness ...
Sep 10, 2000 · But he is the last member of the U.S. Armed Forces to be executed. And he is the only serviceman hanged for rape during peacetime. America is once again examining the death penalty, spurred by...
Number of Executions. 135 people have been executed by the Army since 1916. (Source: National Law Journal, April 4, 1999; see Military Executions for a list of additional executions) Date of Last Military Execution. On April 13, 1961, U.S. Army Private John A. Bennett was hanged after being convicted of rape and attempted murder. (R.
Posted on April 13, 1961. Photo by Shane Aldendorff on Pexels.com. “John Bennett, a black man, was hanged for raping a white girl in Austria. During the six years between his trial and death, eight other soldiers were executed, all of them black. Six white prisoners were on death row during those years.
Aug 12, 2020 · Army Private John Bennett, convicted of the 1955 rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl, was hanged at Fort Leavenworth in 1961. The electric chair that replaced the gallows was never used and was recently donated to the Army’s military police museum in Missouri. Lethal injection is now the prescribed method.
