John A. Bennett

John Arthur Bennett was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces. The 19-year-old private was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. Despite last minute appeals for clemency and pleas to President John F. Kennedy by her family to spare his life, Kennedy refused; Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961.

10 April 1936

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