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The U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939–1945 (payment required) contains the names of many American servicemen executed by military authority overseas. These people are generally identified in the Rosters as GP (or General Prisoners) and were interred under the category of Administrative Decision .
Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
George Strock (July 3, 1911 – August 23, 1977) was a photojournalist during World War II when he took a picture of three American soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Buna-Gona on the Buna beach. It became the first photograph to depict dead American troops on the battlefield to be published during World War II.
Military personnel executed during World War I (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Executed military personnel" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 249 total.
In July 1865, four involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were executed in Washington D.C. by hanging. On September 6, 1865, two Union soldiers were hanged in Ohio for the murder of a military policeman. [14] On October 20, 1865, Confederate war criminal Champ Ferguson was hanged in Tennessee on murder charges.
Georgia was decided in 1976; Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia; List of death row inmates in Georgia; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2015
By Jim Salter and Kate Brumback ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder was executed Tuesday night in the nation's first capital punishment since a botched execution in ...
The post was declared surplus after World War II and sold. The final flag was lowered at 5:00 PM on December 31, 1946. The majority of the old post formed the nucleus for the present community of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Incorporated in February, 1949, it was the first city to be incorporated in Georgia after World War 2.