United States v. Schap

Opinion of the Court

COX, Chief Judge:

Appellant stands convicted1 of the premeditated murder (and beheading) of a man who cuckolded him. Art. 118(1), Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 USC § 918(1). Placing the severed head into an athletic bag, *319appellant took it to the hospital where his wife had been admitted when it was feared she might be suffering a miscarriage (of a child by the deceased). To the horror of his wife and hospital personnel, appellant burst into her room, pulled the head out of the bag, deposited it on her bedside tray table, and physically forced her to look at it.

Lurid…