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John A. Bennett

American soldier and rapist (1935-1961)

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Lived 1935–1961, aged 26United States
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    1935–1961
    Aged 26
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Updated 2026-06-21

John Arthur Bennett was a U.S. Army soldier who remains the last person to be executed after a court-martial by the United States Armed Forces. The 18-year-old private was convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. Despite last minute appeals for clemency and pleas to President John F. Kennedy by the victim and her family to spare his life, Kennedy refused. Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961.

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