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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
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To: Pearls Before Swine
"Unless his goal is to be found guilty."

That's my thought, too.

And I bet he asks, pleads to be executed. So he can go to a martyr's paradise.....

81 posted on 08/23/2013 11:36:24 AM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: ken in texas

Executing him would be what he wants - martyrdom. Stick him in Super Max in CO - live in a cell 23.5 hours a day with no social contact other than his “spiritual leader” once a month. But then, if Obama pardon’s him the outrage that follows would be .....


82 posted on 08/23/2013 11:37:24 AM PDT by SkyDancer (A white woman would be accused of racism if she gave birth to a white baby.)
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To: Dr. Thorne
There are some cases that warrant swift justice like that. Now with news stories that travel the world at light speed and outside influences that can't keep their mouths shut we have situations like this where it took years to even have a trial.

In WWII can you imagine a Nazi sympathizer gunning down people on the base while screaming "Heil Hitler"? He would have been executed by sunset.

83 posted on 08/23/2013 11:41:10 AM 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; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 444Flyer
THE OBAMA BODY COUNT CONTINUES
November 5, 2009


Thank you, ~Kim4VRWC's~.

Fort Hood shooting victims
The following is a list of the victims in Thursday’s Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 14 dead and 38 injured, of which 30 needed to be hospitalized. The list is compiled from various news reports around the country. Authorities have not released any names of the victims as of noon Friday.
Killed:
Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron — formerly of Spokane, Wash., — was a physician’s assistant who was working on the post as a contracted civilian
Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Plymouth, Ind.
Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Serra Messa, Calif.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Okla.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis.
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, was killed.
Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill.
Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis.
Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago and her unborn child.
Military physician assistant Juanita Warman, 55, of Pittsburgh
Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn.
The Unborn Child of Pvt. Francheska Valez. We do not know whether the child was a girl or a boy, so we will just call him/her Innocent.
INJURED
Names of Injured:
Thank you, 444Flyer.


84 posted on 08/23/2013 11:41:34 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: Navy Patriot
"Good thing this was about workplace safety..."

If its "workplace violence/workplace safety", does that mean he doesn't get paradise and the 72 virgins?

If he gets the death penalty, make it fast in coming. Do like the Oklahoma bomber did - get it over quickly and get it behind us. The Arab Street is going to be playing this for all its worth.

He's kind of like a suicide bomber. To fulfill Jihad, doesn't he have to die?

85 posted on 08/23/2013 11:42:34 AM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: jazusamo
"Martyrize him, the sooner the better."

Martinize dry clean him. I think it can be done in an hour.

86 posted on 08/23/2013 11:48:02 AM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: ken in texas

What the hell is a gunman?
The word is Jihadi murderer!

This is as good as we can expect from the media. They will never tell the public that the ‘religion of peace’ has sworn to eliminate Christians and Jews, and that this mass murder is about that.

Not a gunman.


87 posted on 08/23/2013 11:49:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Bearded savages always act like bearded savages.)
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To: ken in texas

It’ll probably be overturned on appeal after he claims incompetent defense counsel.


88 posted on 08/23/2013 11:50:19 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: grobdriver; DuncanWaring
"Should be execution by intravenous bacon grease

"That won't hurt you - I do it every weekend."

*snicker*

89 posted on 08/23/2013 11:51:23 AM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains
If he’s executed, it will be in 2039 or so.

It appears so. There's a guy in Leavenworth who has been on death row since 1988.

90 posted on 08/23/2013 11:51:45 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: austinaero

Cover him in pork grease and drop him in the hyena enclosure at the zoo.


91 posted on 08/23/2013 11:52:07 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: ken in texas

..this will become Al Jazeera’s Trayvon Martin...


92 posted on 08/23/2013 11:53:25 AM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: austinaero
"cover him in pork grease and fill the syringe with pork fat...."

As inviting as this seems, Islamics will go bat-sh*t and pull another Benghazi.

Muslims who are fighting each other might band together to fight the "big satan" and take out "little satan" Israel as a bonus.

93 posted on 08/23/2013 11:57:29 AM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: shadeaud

“Let the bytch get water boarded and raped in the shower. “

He’s in a wheel chair, numb from the neck down. He wouldn’t even feel the rapes. Dental tools might hurt though?


94 posted on 08/23/2013 12:01:22 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: null and void

Better yet, make him be Chelsea Manning’s shrink in prison


95 posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:08 PM PDT by 22202NOVA (DoD civilian, retired Army. Furlough...the new "F" word.)
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To: UCANSEE2
"I think they should take him to the 'chair' each day, and at the last minute the phone rings. After getting off the phone, they tell him that a stay of execution was temporarily approved. Then they should give him a meal containing pig fat, pig in any form, but disguised.

Then, just before he goes to sleep, tell him that his food had uncooked pig in it.

Next morning, wake him up and tell him it was a joke(about the food). Later in the day, take him to the chair, and start the whole process over again. Repeat until he is so confused, he no longer remembers why he was 'ok' with dieing (martyr). Then the next day, put him in the chair, have the phone ring.

Wait for him to say "pardoned again?" and reply "no, I'm getting great rates on car insurance", and then flip the switch.

I kinda' like the way you think. He caused, and continues to cause, so much pain.

96 posted on 08/23/2013 12:05:54 PM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He's got a great plan!)
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To: ken in texas

Can’t wait to see this b@$tard pay for what he did.


97 posted on 08/23/2013 12:06:03 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: hummingbird
If he gets the death penalty, make it fast in coming. Do like the Oklahoma bomber did - get it over quickly and get it behind us.

The Federal government's objective in both of these incidents has been to conceal as much relevant information as possible from the American people.

Execution should take place only after an extended and complete "conversation" with proper patriotic American investigators, and the information made public.

Then this scum can be executed publicly by Lithium fusion on his precious rock in Mecca.

98 posted on 08/23/2013 12:10:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: ken in texas
I agree with the many calls for the swiftly completed execution of Nidal Hasan but the harsh reality is more likely that even if he is sentenced to death, he may never be executed. First will be the 'automatic' appeals then the stalling of the execution, just as his trial was delayed for over four years. Then, I have no doubt that Obama, on his way out in January, 2017, will commute Hasan's death sentence to life in prison as a 'humanitarian gesture'. Sure, there would be lots of outrage but why would Obama care at that point? Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, a big-time tax cheat and while there was a lot of criticism, Clinton remains a hero in the Democrat party. I doubt Obama would fare any worse. The sad truth is that Nidal Hasan will, unfortunately, probably outlive many of us.
99 posted on 08/23/2013 12:10:48 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Yet they executed McVeigh in a couple of years....go figure.

McVeigh admitted to attacking the regime abnd that scared politicians. Hasan shot soldiers, and liberals like obama don't like soldiers.

100 posted on 08/23/2013 12:12:19 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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