Posted on 10/27/2015 10:36:16 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
OKLAHOMA CITY (CN) - The Muslim convert accused of beheading a coworker and nearly beheading a second wants to plead guilty and be executed, a psychologist testified Monday at his competency trial.
Jeanne Russell testified Monday that Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, of Norman, wishes to accept the death penalty because of his religious beliefs.
She cited a "major deficit" in his "intellectual functioning" that she noticed in seven hours of interviews and tests conducted on May 28 and June 30.
Nolen scored 62 and 69 on IQ tests and is mentally retarded, Russell testified.
Nolen is charged with first-degree murder, four counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
He is accused of killing 54-year-old Colleen Hufford on Sept. 25 last year at a Vaughn Foods processing plant in Moore; trying to behead a second victim, Traci J. Johnson, 44, of Oklahoma City, cutting her throat and face; then trying to stab a company executive, who shot him.
The attacks allegedly were sparked by a complaint Johnson made about Nolen "not liking white people."
State District Judge Lori Walkley ordered the competency trial in September, which is expected to take several days. Nolen will stand trial if found competent by a jury - if not, he will be confined at a state mental health hospital.
Russell testified that Nolen believes "death is nothing" and that "we all have to die ... this world is something to be enjoyed briefly," The Oklahoman newspaper reported.
She told the judge that Nolen is not mentally competent to stand trial because he refuses to help his attorneys prepare a defense. She said Nolen has the communication skills of a 6-year-old child.
"He's not trying to fight it," Russell said. "He's saying, 'I'll take the death penalty. That's it.'"
Russell said out that Nolen's insistence on being punished contradicts the view that he does not see what he did as a crime.
Cleveland County prosecutor Susan Caswell told the judge that Nolen might want death because he expects great rewards for acting in the name of Allah, Russell testified.
She disagreed with the view that Nolen is retarded, saying he graduated 83rd out of 104 students at Idabel High School, in Idabel, Okla., and got As in two college psychology classes before leaving school.
Is she saying that Islam is a mental disorder?
Yes..
Which came first; the chicken or the egg?
Hang him.
He wants to die? Well, that makes two of us that want him to die.
Fine. Saw his head off slowly with a kitchen knife that just carved a ham.
I’m all in favor of him dying and going to his reward. Of course, the nature of his reward might not be quite what he is expecting...
Find a Marine to arrange a meeting between him and his 72 virgins. I’m sure there are plenty who would be happy to oblige this request.
Wrap his soon to be corpse in a pig skin and use a firing squad to make him permanently stationary.
That is a chicken and egg question. Certainly idiots convert to Mohammadmanism and Mohammadmen become idiots.
What would happen if they gave him a pig-blood IV?
Would the video p!$$-off the “Arab street”?
I believe SCOTUS has ruled that death penalty cannot be applied to offenders having IQ below some value.
A cynic might wonder if Mr. Nolen is aware of this.
“Cleveland County prosecutor Susan Caswell told the judge that Nolen might want death because he expects great rewards for acting in the name of Allah”
Which is why he shouldn’t be executed, it’s giving him what he WANTS.
This sort of issue, he should get the opposite of what he WANTS. That should be life in solitary confinement, with just a mattress and a bucket and only fed water and bread until eventually one day in the future Satan calls him home.
I’m strongly pro-Capital Punishment....punishment the ultimate punishment therefore.
This POS doesn’t consider it as a punishment, he welcomes it and wants it....so deny him what he wants, instead force the opposite on him which he’ll consider the ultimate punishment.
“This POS doesn’t consider it as a punishment, he welcomes it and wants it....so deny him what he wants, instead force the opposite on him which he’ll consider the ultimate punishment.”
Not on our taxpayer’s dime of putting a roof over his head and food in his mouth for years to come. Waste him.
I can fully understand that, and that’s my general thinking, not wasting taxpayers money.
But in the case of this sort, do we want to give him what he wants? In his thinking, we would be rewarding him and not punishing him.
If we don’t stop agreeing well...you know...people are gonna talk ;)
Yes, waste him. I get people saying it gives him/them what they want and a martyr and all that. I get it. But I don’t really care what muslims want, think, believe or the rest.
If we spent less time in acts of studious navel gazing and more time eradicating murderous garbage, we might just get in the habit of protecting ourselves from murderous garbage.
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