Kokua Line

By Gregg K. Kakesako

Saturday, June 22, 1996

Hildegaard Verploegen is on vacation

Last military execution
was carried out in 1961

QUESTION: The city prosecutor turned over the murder case involving several Kaneohe Marines to military officials, citing the fact that they could be executed if found guilty. When was the last military execution?

ANSWER: The last Army execution took place April 13, 1961, at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The Pentagon says John A. Bennett was executed after his conviction in the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. Bennett was executed by hanging.

Most recently, on June 12, Army Sgt. William Kreutzer Jr. was sentenced to die for a sniper attack on his fellow soldiers Oct. 27. The 82nd Airborne Division sergeant was convicted of killing one soldier and attempting to kill 18 others at Fort Bragg, N.C. He will die by lethal injection.


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