Posted on 03/21/2013 4:26:37 AM PDT by Zakeet
An Army judge in Texas just made a somewhat unconventional ruling in the trial of Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan: She refused to let him plead guilty. Why? It would enable him to avoid execution. Apparently, the Army would not be satisfied to see this alleged mass murderer simply go to jail for a few decades. It appears the prosecution is out for blood.
The situation is a little bit dicey, when you think about it. After Hasan's lawyers made it very clear that Hasan would plead guilty in order to avoid the death penalty, Col. Tara Osborn made it very clear that that wasn't going to happen on Wednesday when she ruled out any guilty pleas. Since it's against Army rules to plead guilty to a capital offense, the defense abandoned its original plan of pleading guilty to 13 counts of premeditated murder and instead asked the court to allow Hasan to plead guilty to 13 counts of unpremeditated murder, a charge that does not carry the death penalty. On Wednesday, the judge said no way since that "would be the functional equivalent of pleading guilty to a capital offense." Ditto to pleading guilty to the 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. That would complicate a not guilty plea to the murder charges.
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Execution is too good for this piece of swine manure, but it is the best alternative we have. They will not allow us to inflict a slow, exruciating death on him like he deserves. I will volunteer to serve on the firing squad.
Better yet, some of the soldiers he wounded should be on his firing squad detail.
Then Hasan should wish to hasten his own death & ascend to his 72 virgins posthaste, if the means of execution is not an issue. But he is determined to live.
What gives, O fearless jihadi disciple of Allah?
From what I understand, the UCMJ doesn’t have a charge for terrorism. Because of that, he couldn’t be charged with it; since it doesn’t exist. As an active duty Major, and who committed a crime on post, he’s charge as a military man, under the UCMJ, not under civil criminal charges.
That’s why there is no “charge” of Terrorism, or Terrorist actions/threats, etc.
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