(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) A former US Army soldier, sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her parents and sister, has been found hanged in his cell.
The Los Angeles Times report, quoting prison officials, said the death of Steven Dale Green was being investigated as suicid
Green had been found hanging in his Arizona cell last week, according to the Times report, which was published on Tuesda
Green, 28, was convicted in 2009 of the rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the deaths of her father, mother and six-year-old sister in Mahmudiya, 20 miles south of Baghda
He was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, after a federal jury in Kentucky could not decide whether he should be executed
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