A US military jury sentenced an American soldier to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for killing 16 Afghan civilians on their family compounds in a nighttime rampage last year, according to a verdict read in court.
Army staff sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks in Kandahar province in March 2012.
Reuters
