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Posted on 04/28/2010 4:17:09 PM PDT by TomGuy
FORT WORTH, Texas — Military prosecutors sent a notice Wednesday indicating they plan to seek the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a defense attorney said.
Maj. Nadal Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting. Premeditated murder carries the death penalty. But if military jurors convict Hasan, they can only sentence him to death if they determine there is an aggravating factor in the case, according to military law.
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“aggravating factor’
Hardcore muzzie would be that factor.
shoulda let the SOB bleed out right there on the ground, perhaps poured some bacon fat over him.
May JUSTICE be done!
“they can only sentence him to death if they determine there is an aggravating factor in the case, according to military law”. Here is an aggravating factor. He was a Wahhabi Sunni— a believer in murder of “infidels”.
It’ll be interesting to see how DOJ interferes with this plan.
I’m just saying...
Death will just make him think that he will get the reward in paradise that he wants. I want him to suffer. Inflict upon him every humiliation, sacrilege to Islam, pain and suffering imaginable. Killing is too good for him.
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Not off topic, since I include terrorism in my brief description.
Five months, kudus to the Obama administration for a decision.
For about the first 200 years of our history, the traitor, murderer for those who prefer, his rights would have been respected and he'd be four months in his grave by now.
The murdered number 14, you worthless Army "leaders."
“It’ll be interesting to see how DOJ interferes with this plan.”
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No doubt the prosecution will be barred from referring to Mohammed, Islam, or Muslims. Wouldn’t want to offend the faith of Obama’s father(s).
Just say no to a quick martyr death sentence. A better message would be to bath him
in pig entrails daily, feed him nothing but pork and all the other
foods/drinks that these meccaheads abhor.
If he so loves evil then let him have it for the rest of his life.
I hope they wring every bit of info out of him first.
I don't think that the DOJ can do anything here.Hussein The Blessed can (I think) but if he wants to he won't do anything before November 2012.Then he can commute any death sentence with impugnity.
That is an element of the UCMJ that has not yet been fully tested. Why complicate a straight-forward prosecution of 13 murders, just to get one extra count especially considering how it could protract the appellate process? In the end, he's going to be dead.
The Army did the right and smart thing by charging him the way that they did.
The UCMJ process certainly could certainly use some tweaking.
Good.
The DOJ could have asserted jurisdiction early on, assuming of course they wanted to charge him with committing a terroristic act. Holder and Obama wanted no part of that.
I doubt Obama will commute because he'll be out of office - probably - before the the order of death is signed. Commutations are HIGHLY unusual (but not impossible) before appellate process has been exhausted.
It's not a matter of "tweaking", it's just a matter of case law. 119a has only been charged in one prior case. That case (for reasons that escape me) wasn't fully litigated - there might have been a plea. In any event, that means that there's no established precedent with respect to the Article. Therefor, it not entirely possible to predict how such a conviction would be fully litigated on appeal. Prosecutors - especially in this prosecution - want to keep things as simple and as predictable as possible.
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