death penalty approved for Sgt. Hasan Akbar. Akbar is charged with 2 counts...

death penalty approved for Sgt. Hasan Akbar. Akbar is charged with 2 counts of 1st-degree murder and 3 counts of attempted 1st-degree murder in a grenade attack that killed 2 U.S. officers and wounded 14 other soldiers March 23, 2003, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait.
Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, commander of the U.S. Army’s 18th Airborne Corps and court martial convening authority in the case, upheld the sentence for Sgt. Akbar last Friday at Fort Bragg, the Army said in a statement issued this morning.
Akbar was sentenced to death on April 28, 2005 (see) by unanimous vote of a military panel for the March 23, 2003, grenade attack that killed Capt. Christopher Seifert and Maj. Gregory Stone.
The grenade attack, which also wounded 14 others, took place at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, where the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, was preparing to cross the berm into Iraq.
Approval of the death penalty means that Akbar’s case will automatically go to appeal and be reviewed by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and ultimately could end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.