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?
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