Verify: Where is the convicted Fort Hood shooter now?

www.khou.com ^ | 5 Aug 19 | hapnHal

[hapnHal]

In military death penalty cases, there are several mandatory appeal stages that could take up to 10 to 15 years.

Author: Marcelino Benito Published: 10:03 PM CST January 31, 2019 Updated: 10:04 PM CST January 31, 2019

A KHOU 11 News viewer named Mike reached out with this question: "Has the Ft. Hood shooter been put to death, and if so why not?"

Here's what we verified.

Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32 on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood back in 2009. It is considered the worst mass murder at a military base in U.S history. We checked military records and found Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013, and now remains locked up on military death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

In military death penalty cases, there are several mandatory appeal stages that could take up to 10 to 15 years. Ultimately a military death sentence will require final approval by the president.

[LeonardFMason]

How can we forget this ASSHOLE:

“General George Casey, the Army’s top officer, is concerned that diversity will become a casualty of the Fort Hood tragedy.

TEXAS-SHOOTING/The religious beliefs of suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim Army psychiatrist, have led to speculation about motive in the shooting rampage that killed 13 people.

“I’m concerned that this increased speculation could cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers. And I’ve asked our Army leaders to be on the lookout for that,” Casey told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Muslim soldiers are conflicted in fighting wars in Muslim countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, Casey said: “I think that’s something that we have to look at on an individual basis. But I think we as an Army have to be broad enough to bring in people from all walks of life.”

The bottom line is the military benefits from diversity, he said.

“Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” Casey said.

THAT’S RIGHT. An impact to our “DIVERSITY” is worse than INNOCENT folks being slaughtered.

[skinndogNN]

It was just “workplace violence”, nothing to see here.

Move along.

[chesley]

Don’t worry. He will, unless he finds Christ.

[Redwood71]

“Most would say that if you have a murder where witnesses number past ten...there probably shouldn’t be more than 30 days of delay before the execution.”

I believe Texas law is like this. Hasan is locked up in death row at Ft. Leavenworth, Ks. It takes years to go through the required appeals process and the final act of a sitting POTUS to approve the execution. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a military execution since 1961, so don’t hold your breath.

Problem here is that it has been so long since the incident that the effect to deter others from doing it has been dissolved. So putting him to death won’t mean much, if anything, by using the law for its main purpose. It becomes an extermination rather than an execution. And killing him now only adds to the appearance of the “I’ll get my virgins theory” for others to observe. Has no positive effect. It just, in the minds of the fledgling muslims, reinforces the afterlife goals of jihadists. So unless he is executed by muslims, he, even in death, helps his cause.

rwood

[Redwood71]

“Most would say that if you have a murder where witnesses number past ten...there probably shouldn’t be more than 30 days of delay before the execution.”

I believe Texas law is like this. Hasan is locked up in death row at Ft. Leavenworth, Ks. It takes years to go through the required appeals process and the final act of a sitting POTUS to approve the execution. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been an execution since 1961, so don’t hold your breath.

Problem here is that it has been so long since the incident that the effect to deter others from doing it has been dissolved. So putting him to death won’t mean much, if anything, by using the law for its main purpose. It becomes an extermination rather than an execution. And killing him now only adds to the appearance of the I got my virgins theory for others to observe. Has no effect.

rwood