Execution Of Prisoners

[jake-the-peg]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10432095/Recording-of-Royal-Marines-accused-of-murdering-Taliban-prisoner-released.html

Court marshals have the same sentencing powers as civillian courts but are they under the same mandatary rules?

If these Royal Marines are found guilty of this murder will we see the same life sentences that a civillian would have to hand down?

Or will we see more suspended sentences like Danny Nightingale?

Will they be named if found guilty?

[Brenden]

Why on earth did they video it and keep it.

[friedgreentomato]

Murdering a prisoner is a disgusting and cowardly act I expect better from the British forces!

[emmie]

so is hacking an unarmed man to death with a machete, but i don't think the British forces make a habit of dispatching their enemies in this way, at least one would hope not.

[friedgreentomato]

emmie I don't believe the OP was asking about that incident but please feel free to hark back to that terrible incident to try and fail to make a point!

[emmie]

Brenden, no idea, but if it hadn't been recorded no one would know - except those involved.

[emmie]

you make a point about this, i also make a point that others have also made, that they don't give a flying damn about killing innocent men, women, children, nor indeed British on British soil, 7/7, i was referring to the fact that what fender says is largely correct, they do not care about us, how the infidel is killed, as long as they are. We should be above this sort of behaviour, one soldier and two complicit, the difference is that now one will go to prison for murder.

[emmie]

whilst the two who murdered the soldier are awaiting trial, they will hopefully spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[Brenden]

Exactly em, feelings run very high when you know you could be murdered 24hours a day 7 days a week by the taliban.

[emmie]

i couldn't condone what they did, shooting a man who was down, unarmed.
it's wrong on all levels. they should have left him be...

[bazwillrun]

take him for treatment, he recovers and then goes back to killing our forces....good idea

[emmie]

of course we know these things do go on, and i reckon you are right, living in a danger zone 24/7 must make one very scared, jumpy even, thinking you could walk out and step on an IED at any moment, or a snipers bullet, the sooner we get out of these places the better.

[emmie]

but they could have left him concealed. he could have died of his wounds...
i am not sure how badly he was injured to start with,

[emmie]

if it does they will have to deal with it, but let us be clear this was an act of murder, not putting the dog down, out of it's misery, you can't do that, if he had been shot by a British soldier where both are armed that would be understandable, but he wasn't.

[emmie]

listen to the tape, they were cool, calm, laughing, hardly the heat of battle,

[sandyRoe]

Their supporters must be thinking it's a pity they didn't face an American court. Some may remember this shooting by an American Marine in a Mosque in Iraq.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6496898/#.Un06aSf3dkg