Appeal scheduled for Hasan Akbar, soldier convicted of murder at Fort Bragg

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Sgt. Hasan Akbar, center, is led from the Staff Judge Advocate Building at Fort Bragg, N.C., Thursday, April 28, 2005, after being sentenced to death for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Appeal scheduled for Hasan Akbar, soldier convicted of murder at Fort Bragg
By Drew Brooks Military editor
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:16 pm | Updated: 8:15 pm, Wed Aug 27, 2014.

A soldier convicted and sentenced to death on Fort Bragg in 2005 will have his appeal heard in a military court later this year.

Hasan Akbar, 43, was sentenced following a 12-day court-martial in which he was found guilty of the March 2003 murders of Army Capt. Christopher Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone.

Akbar, a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division at the time, was the first person in more than a decade to be sentenced to the military's death row at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His sentence was approved by the then-commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, Lt. Gen. John Vines.

Akbar's case was automatically reviewed under military law.