Under a plea deal with Army prosecutors, the soldier accused of slipping away from his unit and killing sixteen afghan civilians last year will not face the death penalty if he admits to the crime and finally talks publicly about it. It will be the first time Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will have spoken openly about the night he allegedly went on his killing spree. So far, he’s said he remembers very little about it. “But as further details and records emerged, Bales began to remember what he did, the lawyer said, and he will admit to ‘very specific fact’ about the shootings,” the AP reports. The relatives of those killed said no prison sentence was harsh enough. One who lost his daughter and mother told the AP: “I know we have no power now. But I will become stronger, and if he does not hang, I will have my revenge.”
