Comment Re: Only one way for him to save himself (Score 1) 147
Manning was convicted under the UCMJ. Manning technically faced the death penalty, but that hasn't been sentenced under the UCMJ, much less carried out, in decades. The US military hasn't executed anyone since 1948. The last people executed on even remotely similar terms were the Rosenbergs in 1953. Everyone else executed by the federal government since then has been on conviction of kidnapping, rape, and/or murder.