Akbar gets death penalty
April 29, 2005
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Army News Service, April 29, 2005) – Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death by a military panel at 8:40 p.m. April 28.
Akbar had been found guilty of murder by a general court-martial at Fort Bragg April 21. The panel was unanimous on two specifications of premeditated murder and three specifications of attempted premeditated murder.
Akbar was convicted of throwing grenades into the tents of fellow 101st Airborne Division Soldiers the night before they left Kuwait to advance into Iraq, March 23, 2003. The grenade attack on three tents in Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, took the lives of Capt. Christopher Seifert and Maj. Gregory Stone and wounded 14 others from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
The results of trial will next be reviewed by the general court-martial convening authority, Maj. Gen. Virgil L. Packett II. Packett may approve the sentence as adjudged, or reduce it in part or in whole.
Upon completion of Packett’s review, the case will automatically be reviewed by the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, officials said, and then by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
(Editor’s note: Information provided by the Fort Bragg Public Affairs Office.)
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