É a imunidade pelo agraciamento quanto a crimes militares «In 1955 the Supreme Court ruled that veterans of the U.S. armed forces could not be court-martialed for overseas crimes that were not detected until after they had left military service. Territorial limitations placed such acts beyond the jurisdiction of civilian courts, and there was no other American court in which they could be adjudicated. As a result, a jurisdictional gap emerged that for decades exempted former troops from prosecution for war crimes.» [...] «In 2000 Congress attempted to close the jurisdictional gap with passage of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. The effectiveness of that legislation is still in question, however, since it remains unclear how willing civilian American juries will be to convict veterans for conduct in foreign war zones.»
Patrick Hagopian, autor do livro em que a questão da criminalização dos actos de guerra praticados por tropas americanas no exterior, é analisada, é leitor de História e Estudos Americanos na Lancaster University. Sobre a sua pessoa leia-se aqui. Quanto ao livro, editado em Novembro de 2013, poder ler-se mais aqui.
O Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act e o respectivo processo legislativo estão publicados aqui.
