Editing Eddie Slovik (section)

==Analysis==
In militaries around the world, courts-martial have imposed death sentences for offenses such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny. In France during [[World War I]], from 1917 to 1918, the United States Army executed 35 of its own soldiers, but all were convicted of rape or unprovoked murder of civilians and not for military offenses.<ref name="Drimmer1992">{{Cite book |last=Drimmer |first=Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8LyAAAAMAAJ |title=Until You Are Dead: The Book of Executions in America |year=1992 |publisher=Kensington Books |isbn=978-1558176188 |page=378 |quote=According to United States Army records, 35 soldiers were executed for murder, mutiny, and rape in World War I. |author-link=Frederick Drimmer |access-date=October 20, 2010}}</ref> During World War II, in all theaters of the war, the United States military executed 102 of its own soldiers for rape or unprovoked murder of civilians, but only Slovik was executed for the military offense of desertion.<ref name="JAG" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mestrovic |first=Stjepan G |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M5e79VIm5DgC |title=The Good Soldier on Trial: A Sociological Study of Misconduct by the US Military Pertaining to Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq |publisher=Algora Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0875867410 |page=53 |access-date=July 6, 2013}}</ref>

Colonel Robert C. Bard of the [[Judge Advocate General's Corps|judge advocate general's office]] noted that of the 2,864 army personnel tried for desertion for the period January 1942 through June 1948, 49 were convicted and sentenced to death, with 48 of those sentences commuted by higher authority. At least one of the members of the tribunal came to believe that Slovik's execution was an injustice in light of all the circumstances, and was an example of disparate treatment from a flawed process.<ref name="Kimmelman" />