Posted on 11/10/2009 6:58:40 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
WASHINGTON - Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday.
FBI and Army investigators tried to interview Hasan, who is recovering from bullet wounds in a San Antonio, Tex., Army hospital, on Sunday, but he refused and demanded a lawyer.
Under the military system, Hasan's fellow Army officers - almost certainly combat veterans - will rule on whether he is guilty of the mass murder of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood, and, if so, on his punishment. A death penalty would be carried out by lethal injection.
The last military execution was carried out in 1961, and the last execution in a federal court case was in 2003.
If Hasan receives the death penalty in a military court, his appeals could drag on for years. Nine soldiers are on military Death Row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; one has been there for more than 20 years.
In the first legal challenge in the Hasan case, lawyer John Galligan, who has been retained by Hasan's family, said a planned visit today by President Obama to Fort Hood for a memorial service could prejudice a potential jury.
"You've got his commander in chief showing up" at Fort Hood to meet with troops and comfort families, said Galligan, 60, of nearby Belton, Tex.
Obama's planned visit "creates an issue as to whether you find a fair and impartial forum, whether that's in the military or even if it were in a federal forum," the retired Army colonel added.
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78% for the death penalty. And hopefully another free-lance jihadi will be relieved of the burden of existence tonight: John Mohammed.
“If this doesn’t warrent the Death Sentence; what does one have to do?”
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- Deploy the “N” word.
- Correctly label queers as the perverted degenerates that they are.
- And coming soon: Exercise ANY kind of moral judgmentalism in even the most obvious of situations.
Best idea I have heard yet. BUT.... it is so unpolitically correct so it won’t wash but good idea!
I hope so.
Have you ever heard of the Malaysian Chest Implosion Torture?
There’s no such thing ... yet.
And thank you for the ping, dear lady :)
Having said that, I think he needs the death penalty but it will take a long time for it to happen if history is any indicator.
You know just one more round to the head while the sh*tbag was laying there and we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Damn.
ping the news and the poll.
Injection is too mild.
LOL!!
Leni
This is the perfect media opportunity for dividing our military for Zero. They will hurt the families of dead privates, telling them he was a poor “persecuted muslim” and to suck it. With gays in the military, this is sure going to be one heck of an opportunity for Mr f@g Rahm Zero’s revenge of seeing their non liberals getting butt perfusion the way they take it like champs.
Think about it. Liberals supporting terrorists shooting our helos in Iraq at Democratic Underground during the Bush years, all supporting quietly the pedophile cool “Radical Chic” of Osama and Che etc...
We get the picture.
>If this doesn’t warrant the Death Sentence; what does one have to do?
Things like:
- Sending a .22 round to your president or state senator/representative via UPS as a warning to quit acting in illegal [contra-constitutional] manners.
- Sending a bullet to a government official/bureaucrat in the conventional manner... especially if it happens to be you defending yourself against actions under color of law/office. (See Waco.)
How long till The Joker pardons him? What would you do if he was pardoned by Ears?
My guess is you all probably would do nothing.
Although my first instinct is definitely death, would that make him a martyr? If it put him in eternal disgrace to have failed (and taken down by a woman, at that), then let him rot in prison.
I agree but with Obama as POTUS he will be sent to Bermuda.
What would you do?
great answer!!!
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