TACOMA, Wash., Aug 23 (Reuters) - A military judge asked a six-member sentencing jury on Friday to decide whether a U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty to murdering 16 unarmed Afghan civilians in a pre-dawn rampage last year should ever be eligible for parole.
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. (Reporting by Eric Johnson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
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