FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage will be tried in a military court and face the death penalty if convicted, the commanding general for the Texas military post announced Wednesday.Hasan must receive the death penalty for his savage crimes, and the military tribunal in charge of the case must hand it to him if they're to be taken seriously.
Maj. Nidal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 shooting spree. [...]
Two Army colonels who reviewed the case previously recommended that Hasan, 40, should be court-martialed and face the death penalty. [...]
Witnesses testified that a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — which is Arabic for “God is great!” — and started shooting in a small but crowded medical building where deploying soldiers are vaccinated and undergo other tests. The gunman fired rapidly, pausing only to reload, even shooting some people as they hid under tables or fled the building, witnesses said. He fatally shot two people who tried to stop him by throwing chairs, and killed three soldiers who were protecting civilian nurses, according to testimony.
The gunman was identified as Hasan, an American-born Muslim who was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan the following month. Before the attack, Hasan bought a laser-equipped semiautomatic handgun and repeatedly visited a firing range, where he honed his skills by shooting at the heads on silhouette targets, witnesses testified during the hearing.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Malik Nidal Hasan will face the death penalty for the murders he committed
According to the latest news, the Fort Hood jihadist murderer will be sentenced to death if convicted:
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I don't have confidence in the American justice system. Even though there were many witnesses, and they caught him on the spot, he could still be acquitted.
Allahu Ackbar does not mean God is great. For crying out loud, whoever wrote this, Allah is the name of a specific deity--the deity of Islam. Allah does not correspond to the God of the Bible; and Allah is not some generic deity.
Allahu Ackbar means "Allah (the god of Islam) is greater [than any other deity]." Sorry. This common inaccuracy perpetuated by the media is a major peeve of mine.
Avi Green,
Lets see if this guy really wants to be a martyr for the insane cause of Allah.
Anon, I am so glad that someone besides me makes this point. I sometimes sound like a cracked record I say it so much.
Shaun
Hassan should be a dead muslim -now--
I too- have no respect for the court system whether military or civil---
the PC crowd runs the legal system now-
C-CS
Disagree totally.
LIFE IN SOLITARY.
No outside contact allowed.
In the military's deepest darkest, most forgotten and forsaken hole.
Let his 'holy mission' gather dirt, dust, cat hair, and mold for company while he rots his life into INSANITY.
Sorry Epaminondas, although torturing him like that would be justice, I will have to pay for it, so I'd rather it be an eye for an eye. I will gladly pull the trigger and pay for the bullet if they like. Also there is the problem that so many are getting out of jail some how. The bullet kind of finalizes it.
Then make it some bombshell blond jewish lesbian and her gay lover that inject him with pig serum based diaphragm paralyzer.
NO SEDATIVE.
@ronmorgan. I'm not sure if you realize this or not, but the costs associated with the death penalty are astronomical and way exceed the costs of life in prison. At an average of $30 a day to feed, cloth, and shelter inmates, either way it goes, it's a big drain on our tax dollars. And just to give myself some credibility here, I am a correctional officer at a death row prison only 30 miles from where the fort hood shootings happened
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