John A. Bennett

Biography

John Arthur Bennett (April 10, 1936 – April 13, 1961) was a U.S. Army private who was convicted by court-martial of raping and attempting to murder an 11-year-old girl while stationed in Austria. He was sentenced to death for the crimes and was executed by hanging at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961. Bennett's victim and her parents had requested clemency, but President John F. Kennedy declined to commute the sentence.

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