The use of capital punishment by the United States military is a legal punishment in martial criminal justice. As of 2026, capital punishment has not been carried out by the U.S. military since 1961,
United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute houses the primary execution chamber for military executions.
Transfer cases containing the remains of soldiers murdered by Nidal Hasan in the shooting at Fort Hood Texas, November 2009
United States Disciplinary Barracks houses men on military death row.
All female prisoners in the DOD serve time at Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar (therefore female military service members under death sentence would await execution here).
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Edward Donald Slovik was an American soldier who was court-martialed and executed for desertion during World War II. He was the only US serviceman to have met such a fate since the American Civil War,
Capital punishment by the United States military
…selective and unfair application of the death penalty. These were the last American soldiers to be executed for desertion until the execution of Private Eddie Slovik during the Second World War. The United States Army executed 36 soldiers during the First World War by hanging between November 5, 1917, and June 20…
Eddie Slovik