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Fort Hood gunman unanimously guilty on all charges
Fox TV (Dallas) - AP Article ^ | 23 Aug 2013 | WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER

Posted on 08/23/2013 10:49:42 AM PDT by ken in texas

Edited on 08/23/2013 10:51:54 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a shocking assault against American troops at home by one of their own who said he opened fire on fellow soldiers to protect Muslim insurgents abroad.

The Army psychiatrist acknowledged carrying out the attack in a crowded waiting room where unarmed troops were making final preparations to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

Because Hasan never denied his actions, the court-martial was always less about a conviction than it was about ensuring he received the death penalty. From the beginning of the case, the federal government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deprive the military and the families of the dead of the justice they have sought for nearly four years.

A jury of 13 high-ranking military officers reached a unanimous guilty verdict in about seven hours. Hasan had no visible reaction as the verdict was read. In the next phase of the trial, they must all agree to give Hasan the death penalty before he can be sent to the military's death row, which has just five other prisoners. If they do not agree, the 42-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Read more: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/23238978/jury-in-fort-hood-rampage-to-resume-deliberations#ixzz2coe7gDoE


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hasanguilty; hasantrial
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To: BitWielder1
A man who represents himself has a fool for a client.

Why yes! Yes he did!

141 posted on 08/23/2013 2:02:47 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: hummingbird

This piece of pig $h!t won’t just go away quietly. He’s going to complain every few months about not having some deathcult thing or other. First it’ll be that he is forced to obama while facing saudi arabia and demand they move the toilets. Then the food won’t be halal enough. Then the prayer rug needs vacuuming. Then he wants a deathcultist to trim his beard. Then his indoctrination book will be mishandled by guards. Then he will demand special treatment during the holy month of love and tolerance.
All the whining will be slavishly picked up and broadcast over and over by a deathcult loving media.


142 posted on 08/23/2013 2:03:32 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Expel all bearded and non-bearded savages now.)
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To: ken in texas

Yes! There is a God! (of course I know there is :) )


143 posted on 08/23/2013 2:04:39 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: DuncanWaring

Post of the day!! :)


144 posted on 08/23/2013 2:06:11 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL of you heroes!)
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To: SecondAmendment
"In the words of the next pre-annointed, suit-panted, POTUS:"

She is pretty vile - I'll give her that much./s

145 posted on 08/23/2013 2:06:40 PM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: ken in texas
"There are probably some differences between civilian and military trials but there are others here more knowledgeable about that."

That's what I was wondering - do civilian and military trials overlap.

Do they have equal status?

Do they have pissing matches over who is number one in charge?

146 posted on 08/23/2013 2:12:32 PM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: BitWielder1

You think that will stop the legal beagles? I’m not so certain.


147 posted on 08/23/2013 2:18:06 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: combat_boots

Cool videos. Thanks for the links.


148 posted on 08/23/2013 2:21:55 PM PDT by ken in texas (The Obama motto: If the weather's nice let's play golf.)
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To: Little Ray
You think that will stop the legal beagles? I’m not so certain.

Who knows... after all the Constitution's penumbra seems to be growing without any restraint. If not that a diligent researcher could probably unearth an obscure case to use as precedent.

149 posted on 08/23/2013 2:26:26 PM PDT by ken in texas (The Obama motto: If the weather's nice let's play golf.)
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To: ken in texas

I was once told that pre-nupt couldn’t be made to stick because “you can’t sign away your rights.” But I don’t know much about the system - I keep as far away as possible. It seems to me that some law weasel could get a judge to reason “The Court should have NEVER allowed that man to represent himself so the waiver is invalid!”


150 posted on 08/23/2013 2:42:09 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: UCANSEE2

wow, lol, remind me to stay on your good side:)

I can’t believe it took this long to get convicted and even have a trial. Why was there even a trial? How many people witnessed this? Rope. Tree.


151 posted on 08/23/2013 2:53:46 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: ken in texas
now skin that POS alive and set his wretched azz on fire!!!
152 posted on 08/23/2013 2:53:58 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: MasterGunner01
Here's what ought to be done: 1) execute him by firing squad with bullets dipped in pig blood; 2) put his body in a pine coffin with slaughtered pig parts; 3) ship him to his relatives and if they don't want him, cremate the body and scatter the ashes to the winds.

I would modify step 2 and 3 this way:

2) Feed his body to the pigs and gather his "remains" when they come out of the pigs.

3) Ship his "remains" to his relatives and require them to keep them and produce them upon request. Failure to produce them results in immediate deportation to whatever third-world Muslim hellhole they came from.

153 posted on 08/23/2013 3:12:37 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Obama vs. Romney - clear evidence that our nation has been judged by God and found wanting.)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

He won’t last that long. Someone will take him out. People like him don’t last long in prison.


154 posted on 08/23/2013 3:19:08 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Washington didn't use his right to free speech to defeat the British. He shot them.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Obama tries to hid his disgust on awarding a medal to a true American Hero.


155 posted on 08/23/2013 3:21:08 PM PDT by spokeshave (While Zero plays silly card games like Spades - Putin plays for keeps.)
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To: spokeshave

Holy shet, look at the mug on him....Like he’s smelling something really bad.


156 posted on 08/23/2013 3:34:33 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: jazusamo; null and void

Put him in cage with starving hogs.


157 posted on 08/23/2013 3:58:58 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“I think I would prefer he get life in prison without possibility of parole so he could wake up every day and know that only death would end it.”


Yes, but insert a pig’s valve connected to his heart. Then he will fear dying, and being excluded from paradise, for the remainder of his days. May he live long, but not prosper.


158 posted on 08/23/2013 4:01:24 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: bigheadfred

I’ll second that.


159 posted on 08/23/2013 4:13:46 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: null and void
Do not allow him the questionable "grace" of dying injihad,

YES! YES! YES!

160 posted on 08/23/2013 6:31:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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