Posted on 11/07/2009 12:09:25 AM PST by malkee
Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could become the first person to be sentenced to death by a military court in almost 50 years.
The US Armed Forces has a death penalty – lethal injection – but there have been no executions since 1961 when an army private, John Bennett, was hanged for rape and attempted murder.
The military can also impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole and there are nine men on its death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
A "convening authority", a high-ranking officer, will decide whether the government will seek the death penalty. If so, it has to be resolved by trial before a panel of servicemen and women.
The death sentence can be imposed only if the panel unanimously agrees on four points. Some are similar to those on civilian juries but they also include the specifically military consideration of whether the offence was committed to avoid hazardous duty or knowingly endanger a mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I hope so. However you can count on Obama’s Department of Injustice trying to prevent that.
I've actually butted heads here and elsewhere because I am against the death penalty. We won't rehash that issue now.
This just might be my road to Damascus moment, though.
I didn’t know the military had gone to lethal injection. I assumed (never a good thing, I guess) that they still used the firing squad.
I have opposed the death penalty in most instances; the attorney enrichment program and lynch-mob mentalities of some humans are the main reasons.
When a life is at stake, what is wrong with sodium pentathol controlled questioning? At some point, justice and truth has to win out over lawyers, liars and litigation.
Bring back the firing squad!
Now in the Armed Forces, we were always cautioned about not volunteering for anything. I would guess that there would be 99.9% volunteers (the remaining .1% would be the muzzies in uniform).
Now, though, since the perp is paralized, they would need to make a run to LOWES to purchase a nailgun so they could fasten the dude to the wall, just sayin'.
Excellent points, couldn’t agree more.
does Texas state law, apply
to military reservations
No, Military posts have exclusive Department of Defense jurisdiction. He will be court martialed if he lives long enough.
Hanging is what Washington did to traitors....if it’s good enough for General Washington, it works for me! But if we must go to firing squads, would they take a civilian who is a sharp shooter? I’ll volunteer!
Hell yeah!
Give him life in from of a firing squad.
We are told Hasan had no options. That’s NOT true...
He did have the option of
1. saying
“I don’t believe in the wars, so I refuse to go overseas.”
2. taking
the consequences just as other people who refused to serve have taken them
He could have made the news, without killing people.
It should read: “Will be executed!” And it should be before a firing squad!
He chose the way others died,without regard to his victims families, children, wives, parents etc., so he chose his own way to die!
I’d rather go Mengele on him, and see just how many pig parts are really transplantable!
“but they also include the specifically military consideration of whether the offence was committed to avoid hazardous duty”
Bingo!
Spanish Saddle...SLOW with LOTS of weight!
Is this true? What was the sentence for the dope who fragged his officer in Iraq a few years ago?
Is this true? What was the sentence for the dope who fragged his officer in Iraq a few years ago?
The pathetic part is, the public is buying it! I say, shoot this bastard at the soonest sunset by a 20 gun firing squad! Forget all the media hype and uber-analysis.
Gee, I think murdering including an unborn baby and wounding all those people might qualify.
Hasan Akbar.
Old FRiend.
I, too, have weakened in my stance supporting the death penalty.
I believe it should be reserved for certain capitol crimes in which there is no doubt the accused/convicted individual did the grisly deed, such as at Fort Hood.
Execution gives him the easy way out, and he can be called a martyr for islam. Better to let him live out his days paralyzed, being tended by nurses (most of them female I hope), and constantly reminded that a woman took him down.
Sometimes, living is more terrible than dying.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Given his bachelorhood status, I'm not sure if he's interested in the 72 virgins awaiting him in "Rag Head Heaven" or not.
I heard a cutie (a/k/a: groaner alert) yesterday: Do you know where whores go to prepare themselves to receive this blown up Islamic fools in heaven; answer: The Virgin Islands. Told you!
If he's paralyzed, let him live. He deserves to suffer before facing his maker.
Why give him what he wants? Why not sentence him to life with no possibility of parole, in a solitary cell where he has no contact with any outside materials or other prisoners?
Send a message to the Muslim world and any others in our military who might be now thinking about 'going out in a blaze of glory' to instantly reach their 72 virgins.
Make him wait a long, long time. Keep him healthy to extend his solitary life as long as possible.
In other words, sentence him to his own personal Hell on Earth.
It would be worth the monetary expense.
Come on now,
He may have had a difficult childhood.
Others may have teased and scorned him for his religion.
Compassion?
NAHH, just hang him on television for the world to see.
Just go to the hospital and yank the plug
Save yourself lot of trouble....
I'm kind of the same way -- I'm against the electric chair.
I'm more in favor of electric bleachers -- sit 'em on aluminum, let 'em hold hands, and just hook up the ones on the end.
It's greener that way.
How about a national compost heap? Green Death.
“...Make him wait a long, long time. Keep him healthy to extend his solitary life as long as possible. “
Either that or pray that he dies on his own. Executing this monster, although he deserves it, will make a hero out of him to other home grown Jihadis. They will use his execution as call to arms and do more damage here at home.
Please?
Why is there no outcry for the people HE executed?
More than likely with the fear of PC and bad (always) press, the Army will not execute him.
Death must include the use of pig fat! Dip all the bullets in pig fat, Grease the rope with pig fat. Grease the electrodes with pig fat!
It should be a televised event.
Execution by firing squad.
All of the above is too good for him.
Just CUT OFF HIS HEAD SLOWLY.
In New Mexico, sometime in the 80’s, the Governor Toney Anaya (d) suspended the death penalty on all on death row.
Later, three former death row inmates escaped and killed folks in AZ and CA.
The death penalty is a crime stopper for those who are put to death.
>>Execution gives him the easy way out, and he can be called a martyr for islam. Better to let him live out his days paralyzed, being tended by nurses (most of them female I hope), and constantly reminded that a woman took him down.
I agree. That would be the worst punishment for him.
The P/C leftists should be real pleased with themselves.
..could be executed. Damn well should be. Then an unmarrked grave filled with pig sh**t.
Rumor has it that Gen. Pershing had the solution for that one.
Unfortunatly this is what will likely happen ...
He’s going to get a couple hundred thousand in free health care, free legal fees, free room and board while his trial goes on, and on, and then he’ll be found insane, and our gracious tax payers will foot a bill for 40 g’s a year.
And there is an equal or greater chance that obama will pardon him and quitely slip him out of the Country. If he dis that, who ould know? The media damn sure would not report it and his disciples would that he is being held in seclusion. For his protection.
It is according to which way the political winds blow for obama.
At the present , he is kissing up to the public via faking concern for the troops to regain his composure for the ass kicking he took on eletion day.
But what will the future hold? Will his islamic masters pressure him? Or will they allow nature to take its course?
Death is too good for this one.
Kuwait, IIRC...
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