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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: Jane Long
This trial was not about the "workplace violence" designation. It was about guilty or not guilty of murder.

My understanding is there is some kind of civil suit to try to get the administration to change the workplace violence label they put on this.

21 posted on 08/23/2013 10:58:57 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: DannyTN

I hope this means his pay stops and he is taken off the list for promotions


22 posted on 08/23/2013 10:59:27 AM PDT by silverleaf (uite a coinky dink)
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To: ken in texas

he admitted he was guilty

Yet this took longer than World War 2!!


23 posted on 08/23/2013 10:59:29 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: skeeter

Hang em high.

Hanging, firing squad or electrocution, none of this oh so gentle sleepy time. He needs to feel some pain in return for the pain he caused. Last meal should be pork sausage followed by pork greased rope hanging, or pork greased bullet firing squad or pork greased electrode electrocution, and it should be tomorrow. There is no doubt about his guilt or actions so screw the wasted time and money in appeals.


24 posted on 08/23/2013 10:59:46 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains
If he’s executed, it will be in 2039 or so.

Yet they executed McVeigh in a couple of years....go figure.

25 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:00 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Jane Long
Whens the last time the military actually used the death penalty? I think it's like 50 years. I would put him in Leavenworth with unsupervised general population. Let the bytch get water boarded and raped in the shower.
26 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:26 AM PDT by shadeaud (Stay Thirsty My Friends)
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To: ken in texas

if 13 military jurists can’t agree this scumbag deserves the death penalty....


27 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:33 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ken in texas

Hasan knew a guilty verdict was coming regardless, so he opted for a declaration of martyrdom. He will not be killed but will be incarcerated in a “monastic” cell while receiving the adoration and praise of a billion Muslims.


28 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:37 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Mastador1

Sorry I am so ambivalent about this.


29 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:40 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: colorado tanker
there is some kind of civil suit to try to get the administration to change the workplace violence label they put on this.

Which should not even be a question. But, with these clowns....

30 posted on 08/23/2013 11:00:48 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: ken in texas
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.

31 posted on 08/23/2013 11:01:08 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: colorado tanker

He was found unanimously in a trial where he repeatedly admitted terrorism/jihad.

Gonna be hard for Holder to get out of this in the public eye. But he will try.


32 posted on 08/23/2013 11:01:18 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Doctor 2Brains

The SOB will out live me and continue to be paid or taken care of longer.


33 posted on 08/23/2013 11:01:57 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: ken in texas

Fry him like bacon.


34 posted on 08/23/2013 11:02:50 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Who am I to judge homosexuals? That's what the Tony Awards are for.)
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To: ken in texas

FFS, this POS should have had his head blown-off the second the got their hands on him that day at Ft. Hood.


35 posted on 08/23/2013 11:03:56 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: Doctor 2Brains
Community service and then a pardon from the kenyan.

What, no medals?
36 posted on 08/23/2013 11:04:10 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: ken in texas

Get him hanged before Obama can do the pardon paperwork.


37 posted on 08/23/2013 11:04:12 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: ken in texas

Executed in 15 years. Anyone hear ABC radio news last few days, mis-pronouncing his name as “Hossin” (emphasis on the first syllable), completely took away the “mid east” sound of it.


38 posted on 08/23/2013 11:04:16 AM PDT by jughandle
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To: ken in texas

Hang the bastard


39 posted on 08/23/2013 11:04:33 AM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: ken in texas

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.


40 posted on 08/23/2013 11:04:35 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
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