Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and the judge, Army Colonel Jeffery Nance (R) are shown in this courtroom sketch during a pre-sentencing hearing in Tacoma, Washington, August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Peter Millet
Robert Bales Gets Life Without Parole for Afghan Massacre -- ABC News
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will have no chance at parole as he spends the rest of his life in prison for the murder of 16 Afghan civilians last year, a jury decided today.
Bales was sentenced to life in prison without release by a jury at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Fort Lewis, Wash., according to the Associated Press.
Bales, 39, pleaded guilty to the murders in June and confessed to the crimes in order to avoid the death penalty.
The U.S. Army soldier spoke to the jury Thursday, calling the massacre an "act of cowardice" and asking jury members for leniency in his sentence.
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