Sergeant Horne pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to three years in prison, later reduced to one year.

He has been charged with "unpremeditated murder," the Army's equivalent to second-degree murder.

Last month, in exchange for Sergeant Dela Cruz's testimony, prosecutors dropped all five counts of unpremeditated murder that he faced.

Killen was convicted of the unpremeditated murder of Wayne; he was stripped of all service privileges, dishonourably discharged and sentenced to 20 years hard labour.

At one point in the hearings, the investigating officer told prosecution lawyers, "The account you want me to believe does not support unpremeditated murder."

They called it unpremeditated murder and MIT got him a good lawyer.

He moved in numbness, in consciousness of the unpremeditated murder of twenty-one men.

The military jury apparently agreed, finding him not guilty of "unpremeditated murder."

Four of the eight, including Wuterich, were accused of unpremeditated murder.

The unpremeditated murder affects him as the execution of the old woman had not.