Posted on 08/24/2013 8:21:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
About that last execution, which happened about three months after John Kennedy took office via wikipedia
John Arthur Bennett (April 10, 1935 – April 13, 1961) was a United States Army soldier who was convicted and executed for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. As of 2013, he is the last person to have been executed by the U.S. military.
Bennett was born in Virginia to a family of African American sharecroppers. He was epileptic, but managed to enlist in the U.S. Army when he was 18. Days before Christmas 1954, a heavily intoxicated Bennett left his base to find a brothel, but chanced upon an 11-year-old Austrian girl. He raped her, and then attempted to drown her in a nearby stream. He was convicted by a court-martial one month later and sentenced to death. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Bennett’s death warrant. Days before Bennett’s scheduled execution four years later, the girl and her parents wrote to President John F. Kennedy, asking that Bennett’s life be spared. Kennedy took no action on the appeals, letting his predecessor’s death warrant stand. Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961.
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So that was in 1961. Given various legal hangups even if Hasan gets the death penalty, in what year will it take
place?
Make him an AP reporter for religious tolerance issues...
We should follow whatever the military law proscribes for this sentence, without regard to whether he is a Muslim, would be “making him a martyr”, or anything else.
Plus, if we don’t execute him because of some reasoning that “it would make him a martyr”, it lends authority for any kind of judicial sentencing to take a persons religious beliefs into account during sentencing (Whether it is “bending the rules” in favor of the person to appease their religion, or against the person because of anger/hostility toward them or their religion ). That is just wrong. Sentence for a crime should be cut and dried - whatever their crime is, follow the law on sentencing.
We don’t want to give an inch on military law, that would open the door to protests, lawsuits, all kinds of nonsense dragged on and on to sway the sentencing of every other convicted terrorist from now on.
Finally, execution does not “win him points with Allah”,or “not make him suffer enough” as he will soon find out. He will be facing the one True God, where his sentence for eternity will be final and just.(I pray he repents before then!)
All that matters is that it’s justice.
I concur! Give him death... he can think himself a martyr all he wants... he will be faced with the truth once he crosses over to eternity...
I concur! Give him death... he can think himself a martyr all he wants... he will be faced with the truth once he crosses over to eternity...
I concur! Give him death... he can think himself a martyr all he wants... he will be faced with the truth once he crosses over to eternity...
5.56mm
Nadil wants the death sentence carried out. So did Timothy McVeigh. Nadil should be as fast tracked to his grave and Tim was permitted to be.
It isn’t about punishment. It is about deterrence. A generation ago, folks knew that.
Recall that the Islamist in the White House gave Osama bin Laden, a man Obama claims didn’t follow “real Islam”, a taxpayer funded Islamic funeral.
This traitor in Texas will not be executed on Obama’s watch.
The judge will probably call for a mistrial.
Has his pay finally be suspended? Has his pay while awaiting trial been revoked?
When is the court martial?
Only if done with a bullet dipped in pigfat first.
Have you been out of the country? Court martial is over except...guilty on all charges.
Sentencing comes next week ...will be stripped of rank, all pay stopped and probably the death penalty.
Death by boar-dom.
“For Fort Hood shooter, is execution punishment?”
Let me do it and it would be!
I would saw all his teeth off with a hacksaw, pack his mouth with pig @zzholes, and sew his mouth shut with baling wire.
The families of his victims can watch him choke to death.
But while survivors and relatives of the dead view lethal injection as justice, the Army psychiatrist appears to see it as something else—martyrdom. …
Yeah, APPEARS is the right word. Strap his terrorist ass to the table and bring out the needles and he will change his tune. Regardless I refuse to pay for this scumbag to be kept alive for 20-30-40 years....................
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
When they say guilty on all charges, does that mean that the conclusion was merely workplace violence? No premeditated terrorist attack, treason, etc?
Oh, I know he won’t be executed. I never said I thought so-just what I thought should happen. He’s far more likely to be named to a government post as some kind of ‘educator’ and sensitivity trainer.
If he does spend his life in prison, he’ll be treated with kid gloves, given all his Muslim perks and be the subject of a movie.
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