Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner

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Tue, 2019-05-07 02:24

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has pardoned a former US soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, the White House announced Monday.
Trump signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, for former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, of Oklahoma, press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
Behenna was convicted of unpremeditated murder in a combat zone after killing a suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq. He was paroled in 2014 and had been scheduled to remain on parole until 2024.