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...occasion seemed so indecisive as to leave confusion in the wake of crucial opinions. When it ruled against capital punishment???an emotional issue that even the Warren Court had avoided?the vote was 5 to 4 and each Justice wrote a separate opinion. Partly as a result, half the states have drafted new statutes (still untested) reviving the death penalty...
...affair to be convicted by a court-martial. In all, 25 officers and enlisted men have been charged with various offenses in connection with the incident. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam at the time of My Lai, recently recommended administrative punishment???demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against general officers, compared with the harsher treatment of a young platoon leader...
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