US Army private <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik" id="mwxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eddie Slovik">Eddie Slovik</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" id="mwxQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capital punishment">executed</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion" id="mwxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Desertion">desertion</a>, the first such execution of an American soldier since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>.