Posted on 11/09/2009 6:22:41 PM PST by jimbo123
As a serving officer Hasan, 39, is likely to be tried in a military court in a system which is ultimately headed by Mr Obama in his role as commander-in-chief, and requires his approval for the death penalty to be carried out.
No member of the US military has been put to death since the 1961 hanging of Army Private John Bennett for rape and attempted murder.
Mr Obama has followed a nuanced line on the death penalty in the past, saying it is not an effective deterrent but should be an option in extreme cases.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ya, won’t happen.
Ya, won’t happen.
Assuming it ever gets that far, BHO will do whatever is expedient that week.
I would like someone to ask him or Gibbs if Obama would sign Death Sentence authorization if the Fort Hood killer is convicted?
Let Sarah Palin do it...as her first official act as president.
Yeah I just read that on UK Telegraph I just hope the trial go long so President Obama be one term president he won’t sign for it
That irony of it
It IS a military matter, and zero will be forced to kill a man .... and if zero ISN/T a legitimate citizen?
He becomes a 1st degree murderer .. pre-meditated and all that.
Expect an uptick in the persecution of innocent Americans ... just to take the heat off of the blue dress the faggot wears
He won’t even have to make that decision. By the time Hasan moves through trials and appeals, Obama will have long since been out of office, even with a second term. As the article states, George W. Bush signed a death warrant last year for a crime committed in 1988. And they still haven’t executed that guy.
Perhaps we can drag it out until 2012.
Hassan could be convicted tomorrow and it would be more than 7 years before he exhausts his appeals. It’ll be the next president who signs the death warrant if not the president after that. I think the inmate who has been at Leavenworth’s death row the longest has been there over 20 years.
He’s screwed either way. he sign’s off on it. He’ll piss off the Muslim nation (who i could give two $#!*s about) And if he DOESN’T sign off on it, he’ll piss off the rest of America and set a precedent for future attacks.. Some1 go get the popcorn ready.
>>>The Kenyan will never sign a death warrant for a fellow muslim.
Besides, a death penalty would make him a martyr.
nope Her first act will be to arrest zero
When presented with that decision, he will prove to all, and forever, whose side he is on.
Amen
Muslims are exempt from national health care?
That's not fair!
But yes, I don't see Obama heading that way.
Here's the interesting thing about the death penalty. Right now everyone is up in arms, but in 10 or 20 years when the victims are forgotten, all that remains is a loud screaming culprit that is doing all he can to portray himself as a victim, with bleeding hearts and the ACLU kind in his corner. This man should be executed publicly within this year, but that'll never happen in this country anymore.
NEVER HAPPEN!!
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