Defense lawyer: Fort Hood suspect may be paralyzed

AP via Google News ^ | 11/13/2009 | Angela K. Brown

[cll]

FORT HOOD, Texas — The attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused of killing fellow soldiers at Fort Hood says doctors have told the soldier he may be paralyzed from the waist down. Attorney John Galligan told The Associated Press on Friday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan told him that he has no feeling in his legs and doctors say the condition may be permanent. Galligan says Hasan also told him he had extreme pain in his hands. Hasan was shot by police officers responding to last week's shootings at Fort Hood. Galligan spoke with him Thursday in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the attack at the sprawling Texas post that also left 29 people wounded. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

[cll]

"Galligan says Hasan also told him he had extreme pain in his hands".

Good news!

[SnakeDoctor]

That's a shame.

SnakeDoc

[Russ]

He’s also paralyzed from the neck up...and who cares?

[17th Miss Regt]

Good. When it comes time for his execution, when we won’t need a paralytic agent when we put the sodium hydroxide into his vien.

[coon2000]

Let’s hope he suffers a lot, right up to the point when he is sent to spend eternity with 72 Helen Thomas’s who have not showered in a decade.

[albie]

“he may be paralyzed from the waist down”.

...no more productive lap dances. Boo hoo.

[The Louiswu]

Well, then he won't feel anything when his executed by firing squad.

He's got that going for him.

[Kozak]

Malik Hasan told him that he has no feeling in his legs and doctors say the condition may be permanent.

That could be easily corrected with a cerebral infusion of 230 grains of cuproplumbin....

[K-oneTexas]

He may be a suspect in a court of law, however with eye witnesses and 2 police officers shot also ... he is a murderer.

The electric chair awaits! Till some ACLU whiny lawyer comes along and claims ‘cruel and unusual’. Hope judges remember then the victims of this murderer and their families.

[17th Miss Regt]

Oops!

when we won’t need ...

[thinking]

and what is the condition of the many wounded....typical MSN, suddenly the gunman is the victim...sheer madness

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sit him in a chair for the firing squad.

[uncitizen]

there are little tricks the doctors can do to see if he’s faking.

[faucetman]

Does this mean for the rest of his life (short I hope) that he is going to pi$$ & $hit himself? Let’s change his diaper say.....once a month.

[COUNTrecount]

NO MORE LAP DANCES FOR YOU !!

[Rennes Templar]

Cruel and unusual punishment!

[massgopguy]

No, hang him. They did it in Blazing Saddles.

[presently no screen name]

extreme pain in his hands

Let him make the connection - he used both his hands to kill 13 and injure 30 of our undefended military.

[CurlyDave]

I volunteer to test this hypothesis by amputating both legs using nothing but a blowtorch.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Paralyzed? Put him in a room by himself, paste pictures of naked women all over the ceiling, run a tube in his nose and force feed him liquified SPAM, and make him listen to reruns of Pat Roberetson all day long.

Ok, the reruns may be classed as “Cruel and Unusual punishment but who cares!;-D