# Can a Western soldier commit necrophilia?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-western-soldier-commit-necrophilia/789125>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-western-soldier-commit-necrophilia/789125 "2017-06-16T16:33:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-western-soldier-commit-necrophilia/789125/21 "2017-06-16T17:32:09Z")

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> [@constanze](#):
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> The US neither follows the Geneva code nor the ICC, so if the UCMJ doesn’t apply, what other Trouble would there be? Torture is allowed; killing of civilians is allowed (My Lay); raping of women is allowed; and in most cases, it will probably not be an “official” soldier but a blackwater mercenary (since in some places they outnumber regular troups 2:1 or similar).

Torture is no longer allowed and the “torture” allowed wasnt considered torture.

Raping is not allowed.

> **[Capital punishment by the United States military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_military)**
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> The use of capital punishment by the United States military is a legal punishment in martial criminal justice. Despite its legality, capital punishment has not been imposed by the U.S. military in over sixty years.
> The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled in 1983 that the military death penalty was unconstitutional, and after new standards intended to rectify the Armed Forces Court of Appeals' objections, the military death penalty was reinstated by an executive order of Pre...

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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-western-soldier-commit-necrophilia/789125/22 "2017-06-16T17:57:05Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> Moving the thread from General Questions to IMHO, because we don’t have a forum called _I’m either mentally ill or just fucking with you._
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> **samclem** , moderator.

A valiant effort. However:  
[ul][li]The factual question has been answered; and[/li][li]The rest of the OP has not and is not likely to lead to anyone addressing the…other questions posed.[/ul][/li]  
As such, I’m going to lay this one to rest.

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