Bradley Manning faces Death Penalty.

[Drosophila]

While conviction on the charge of "aiding the enemy" could result in the death penalty, military prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on that charge alone. But the presiding military judge would have the authority to dismiss the prosecution's recommendation and impose the death penalty.

Bullshit. Utter fucking bullshit. I hate the US military. This is not aiding the enemy in any way, shape, or form. No one has been killed EVER as a result of these leaks. If these fucktards in the Pentagon want to save lives so fucking badly, then they should take the fucking troops out of fucking harms way.

I apologize for the language.

[Dimmu]

They probably want to "scare" the people into submission, but instead they will create a martyr..

[RadioRaheem84]

Jesus! This is fucking nuts!

[KC]

He won't be executed, he'll get life.

[turquino]

And, if I'm not mistaken, the evidence against Manning is an alleged confession he made to an autistic computer hacker and convicted felon. It's a case based on hearsay and a total frame-up. Meanwhile he's in a military prison control unit, subjected to extreme deprivation for this American bullshit justice.

[Delenda Carthago]

Dont mourn, act.Action replaces tears.

[Rakhmetov]

Manning deserves a Congressional medal of honor. Words fail me.

[RedSquare]

This is nothing new. It has been stated from the beginning that the option to sentence him to death exists, regardless of what the prosecution thinks. Obviously if the Judge was to imposed such a sentence, he will be required to support his view by legal argument and having taken previous cases into account.

I don't think the Establishment (Political & Judiciary) is willing to make a martyr, maybe at the beginning of the foundation of military law it was probably the norm, but it's incredibly unlikely to be the favoured penalty today. Back in WWI, hundreds of young men who ran from the trenches out of fear were simply stood up against a wall and shot at the soonest opportunity, a field court martial as they called it.

The state takes these type of offenses incredibly seriously, and it wants to deter them in future if it can do so in any way. War is the glue that keeps the system together.

[Futility Personified]

If he gets killed, one can only hope that his death can unite folks against the travesty that is the US Government. If he gets life, someone should bloody spring him!

[Demogorgon]

It would be unusual for there to be a death sentence when the prosecution don't want it, but let's not forget that Life Imprisonment is also absolutely excessive even if one were to take the view that his actions were wrong.

[brigadista]

could someone who knows explain to me about how he is represented? does he have to take a lawyer from the army who is appointed to him?

[Rakhmetov]

could someone who knows explain to me about how he is represented? does he have to take a lawyer from the army who is appointed to him?

He isn't. He is being held incommunicado.