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Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including 49 death sentences, Slovik's was the only death sentence that was actually carried out.

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  • Eddie Slovik
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  • Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including 49 death sentences, Slovik's was the only death sentence that was actually carried out.
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  • G Company, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division
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  • 1944(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1920-02-18(xsd:date)
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  • 20(xsd:integer)
death place
  • Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
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  • Eddie
Name
  • Edward Slovik
Birth Place
  • Detroit, Michigan, United States
Title
  • The Execution of Private Slovik
death date
  • 1945-01-31(xsd:date)
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  • 71477(xsd:integer)
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  • Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over 21,000 American soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II, including 49 death sentences, Slovik's was the only death sentence that was actually carried out. During World War II, 1.7 million courts-martial were tried, representing one third of all criminal cases tried in the United States during the same period. Most of these cases were minor, as were the sentences. Some were serious. Nevertheless, a clemency board, appointed by the Secretary of War in the summer of 1945, reviewed all general courts-martial where the accused was still in confinement. That Board "remitted or reduced the sentence in 85 percent of the 27,000 serious cases reviewed". The death penalty was rarely imposed, and those cases typically were for rapes or murders. Eddie Slovik was the only soldier executed who "had been convicted of a 'purely military offense'".
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