San Juan, Puerto Rico: A Pentagon legal official has rejected a request to grant clemency for the youngest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay and ruled his 8-year sentence for war crimes should stand.
Omar Khadr pleaded guilty on Oct. 25 to charges that included murder for throwing a grenade that mortally wounded an American soldier in Afghanistan. A military jury at the U.S. base in Cuba recommended a 40-year sentence. But a pretrial agreement limited him to no more than eight years.
The Pentagon official in charge of war crimes tribunals upheld the eight-year sentence on Thursday. Bruce MacDonald rejected a defense request to cut the sentence in half.
The prisoner is expected to be sent back to his native Canada by Nov. 1
Omar Khadr pleaded guilty on Oct. 25 to charges that included murder for throwing a grenade that mortally wounded an American soldier in Afghanistan. A military jury at the U.S. base in Cuba recommended a 40-year sentence. But a pretrial agreement limited him to no more than eight years.
The Pentagon official in charge of war crimes tribunals upheld the eight-year sentence on Thursday. Bruce MacDonald rejected a defense request to cut the sentence in half.
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