If Manning had carefully selected one or two documents/videos to release, for what he felt were the right reasons, it would have been a lot different. Still wrong and illegal, but maybe justifiable to some. He did not do that. Instead, it seems he just posted everything that crossed his desk to wikileaks without even reading, let alone understanding, it. It seems he did this with the sole intent of doing harm to the United States, and it was done recklessly with total disregard for the very real danger he was placing fellow Americans in. He needs to be executed for that. They can let him wear a dress for his execution if he wants.