Lt. William Calley. is charged with the premeditated murder in the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians including women and children at My Lai. when he was commanding an army platoon. Calley, was convicted of murder in the My Lai Massacre and he was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army and to be confined at hard labor for life.
On August 1971, Lieutenant General Albert O. Connor, commanding general of Third U.S. Army, reduced Calley’s sentence to twenty years confinement. In April 1974, the Secretary of the Army, Howard H. Callaway, further reduced Calley’s sentence to ten years confinement, making Calley eligible for parole in 6 months. He was pardoned by President Richard Nixon in 1974 after serving about a third of his 10-year sentence and was released in November 1974 having served three years of house arrest for the murders. More
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