Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency for ex-Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna after he was sentenced to prison by a military court for 'unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.'
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order granting a full pardon to a former Army First Lieutenant, who was convicted of killing an Iraqi Al-Qaeda prisoner roughly a decade ago.
After the judgment, made approximately a decade ago, the “U.S. Army’s highest appellate court noted concern about how the trial court had handled Behenna’s claim of self-defense,” the statement read, adding that “the Army Clemency and Parole Board reduced his sentence to 15 years and paroled him as soon as he was eligible in 2004, just five years into his sentence.”
“Thirty-seven generals and admirals, along with a former Inspector General of the Department of Defense, signed a brief in support of Mr. Behenna’s self-defense claim,” the statement said. “Numerous members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation, Oklahoma’s then-Governor Mary Fallin, and current Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter have also expressed support for Mr. Behenna.”
In 2008, Behenna, then 24, killed a suspected al-Qaeda operative who possible assisted in orchestrating an explosion north of Baghdad a month earlier that resulted in the deaths of at least two of his comrades, according to the Washington Post. While transporting the suspect, named Ali Mansur, back to his village to be freed after the military failed to find evidence to tie him to the bombing, Behenna interrogated him again.
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