Staff Sergeant Robert Bales pled guilty today to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghans in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, according to a report from Russia Today.
The American soldier charged with murdering 16 Afghan civilians a year ago near Kandahar province pleaded guilty in court on Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39, entered the plea inside of a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state early Wednesday, the Associated Press reported from the site.
According to the AP, a military judge will hear Bales’ firsthand account of what happened during the March 2012 outburst before deciding if the plea will be accepted by the court.
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The AP wrote Wednesday afternoon that Bales pleaded guilty to all 16 counts, but came short of doing such for another charge lobbed against him: impeding an investigation. If the judge accepts his plea, a jury will likely decide later this summer the fate for the soldier — life, or life without the possibility of parole.
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