United States v. Day

Opinion of the Court

Geoege W. Latimer, Judge:

This case is before the Court pursuant to Article 67(b) (1), Uniform Code of Military Justice, 50 USC § 654, requiring that we review all cases in which the sentence, as affirmed by the Board of Review, imposes the death penalty.

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On the night of December 23, 1950, Lee Hak Chun, the victim of the shooting, his wife, Kim Chung Hi, and their three children, were in a basement room of the “VIP billets” in the Eighth Army Officer’s Building in Seoul, awaiting transportation to Taegu the next morning. There were five or six Korean men in the adjoining…