CHICAGO, July 3 (Reuters) - A former U.S. soldier charged with taking part in the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and murdering her and her family should be sentenced to die if a court finds him guilty, U.S. government prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky filed the notice in federal court at Paducah, Kentucky, in the case of Steven Green. He faces trial in that court in the case and has been described in earlier military court proceedings as the ringleader of the March, 2006, incident.

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