The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage in Texas will be court-martialed and face the death penalty.
Fort Hood’s commanding general announced the decision Wednesday for Maj. Nidal Hasan.
The 40-year-old is expected to appear in a Fort Hood courtroom for an arraignment and could enter a plea.
Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 shooting spree at the Army post.
Hasan’s lead attorney, John Galligan, had urged the commanding general not to seek the death penalty, saying such cases were more costly, time-consuming and restrictive.
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(Source: AJC)
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If indeed he receives the death penalty, let’s hope President Obama wouldn’t commute his sentence.
Hasan’s lead attorney, John Galligan, had urged the commanding general not to seek the death penalty, saying such cases were more costly, time-consuming and restrictive.
THIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS DOING WHAT HE HAS TO DO TO KEEP HIS CLIENT ALIVE.
and you thought they were going to give him a medal??????
Only time will tell if this nation has the guts to do the right thing in this matter. If he is found guilty and sentenced does the military have the guts to carry out the sentence? I hope so.
He will not get the death penalty. He is an arab. The federal government is all it’s forms is taking orders from the top whereby the US has sold out to Saudi Arabia. This is why we are in Libya. This is why America is not severing it’s ties with Israel while at the same time America is being a most horrible ally. Saudi Arabia wants an Israel to keep their brothers from focusing on them.
Money talks; America has walked.
For all you death-penalty fans, please consider the opinion of some lawyers who thought that the acquital in the Casey Anthony case (Florida mother accused of killing her 2-year old) was the result of a jury who were extra cautious because they knew that guilty verdict could result in the death penalty. This guy is probably not as lovable as a young white Christian mother, and if this is a court-martial, the panel deciding the facts may be less emotional than a civilian jury, but the death penalty has some complications that may make a trial more difficult for the prosecution.
#6 – The jury in Florida could have found her innocent of murder, but guilty of manslaughter (negligent homicide). Their conclusion is that the prosecution failed to show it was other than an accident, even if she tried to cover it up (which she was convicted of). There isn’t really an equivalent option in the Hasan case, other than a finding of insanity.
It might be easier for a military jury, consisting of high ranking officers (courts martial have a “jury” that outranks the defendant) to conclude that Hasan was insane, rather than admitting that the military made a series of serious blunders that allowed a traitor to run around with automatic weapons shooting American soldiers.