Steven Green

This article is about the soldier and convicted murderer Steven Green. For the bank manager, see Stephen Green ; for other people, see Steve Green .

Photo showing Steven D. Green firing the padlock on an abandoned Iraqi house

Steven Dale Green (born May 2, 1985 in Midland , † February 15, 2014 in Tucson , Arizona ) was a convicted American war criminal .

Green grew up in Seabrook , Texas , and was a member of the 101st Airborne Division . In the Mahmudiyya massacre on March 12, 2006, he and his comrades James Barker, Paul Cortez and Jessie Spielman raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl after he himself had murdered her parents and six-year-old sister. He then shot the 14-year-old girl and set the body on fire. Green was convicted of murder, rape and obstruction of justice on May 7, 2009 and sentenced to life in prison two weeks later on May 22.

The Kentucky State Attorney's Office had called for the death penalty . Green then served his sentence at the United States Disciplinary Barracks near Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . On February 19, 2014, it was announced that Green was found dead in his cell. The authorities assume suicide .

The film Redacted is about the deed.

Web links

• The dust between his teeth - the story of the Texan Steven Green, who became a murderer and rapist in the Iraq war , Die Zeit
• Soldiers in Iraq - "Killing is like eating pizza" , Der Spiegel
• Life sentence for US soldier Steven Green for rape (October 5, 2016 memento on the Internet Archive ), Das Erste
• Because of massacre in Iraq - 110 years imprisonment for US soldier , South German

Individual evidence

1. ^ Soldier Convicted Of Iraq Rape, Murders Found Hanged In Prison . huffingtonpost.com, Feb. 18, 2014
2. ↑ Murder of Iraqi family: Ex-US soldier sentenced to life imprisonment . Spiegel online, May 22, 2009. Retrieved February 28, 2014
3. ↑ Iraq rape soldier given life sentence . Guardian Unlimited . November 17, 2006. Retrieved November 1, 2007.
4. ↑ Where are they now? , Louisville Courier Journal . April 14, 2009. Accessed on July 9, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ↑ Convicted US soldier takes his own life , n-tv . 19th February 2014.