A FORMER US soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teenager and murdering her family was spared the death penalty after jurors couldn’t agree on a punishment for the crime.

A former US soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teenager and murdering her family was spared the death penalty after jurors couldn’t agree on a punishment for the brutal crime.

A FORMER soldier’s life will be in the hands of a western Kentucky jury after the panel convicted him of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl and killing her family in Iraq.

A US federal jury has convicted a former soldier of raping and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl after killing her parents and younger sister while he was serving in Iraq.

AN ex-soldier charged with raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and slaying her family set the girl’s body ablaze after shooting her several times, prosecutors said during opening statements at his federal trial.