US ex-soldier risks death over Iraqi rape and murder

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.

The 12 jurors were scheduled to reconvene on Monday to weigh the penalty in the case of one-time army soldier Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas.

Green faces a possible death sentence. Green was convicted on Thursday in Paducah in the March 12, 2006, attack on Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and her family in a village about 32km south of Baghdad.