Nidal Hasan sentenced to death...

[one_voice]

Unanimous verdict by 13 jurors,,

link coming..

FORT HOOD, Texas -- The Fort Hood gunman, Nidal Hasan, was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing 13 people, most of them unarmed soldiers, in a 2009 shooting rampage.

The jury of 13 retired military officers, which convicted Hasan of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, deliberated for just over two hours on the sentence. They also dismissed Hasan from the Army and stripped him of his military pay.

Hasan will now be flown to the maximum security U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Hasan will be placed on death row while awaiting lengthy, automatic appeals.

Legal experts say there will likely be years of appeals before Hasan could be put to death by lethal injection.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/28/20232450-fort-hood-gunman-sentenced-to-death?lite

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[cali]

1. wrong choice. n/t

[gopiscrap]

2. I agree: wrong choice!

[11 Bravo]

9. What would have been the right choice?

I have my own opinion, but I'm interested on others.

[question everything]

10. I am against the death penalty but here I have to pause

and... treat his remains like Osama bin Laden - burial at sea so no shrines.

[NuclearDem]

3. But remember, he's a bad guy who killed people!

So it makes it okay for us to a bad guy and kill him.

Yay justice!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

13. Does that mean we can't lock-up kidnappers?

I'd prefer he rot in prison for decades to come but the difference is he had more due process afforded him then he ever gave to those he murdered and maimed.

[NuclearDem]

14. What I meant is we have a system for dealing with people who commit crimes.

And that's to isolate from the general public for a period of time, and try to rehabilitate the ones we can. Murder isn't part of that, especially state-sanctioned.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. He wanted to be a martyr; they should've given him life.

[graywarrior]

6. Yeah, he's getting what he wants

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I remain opposed to the death penalty.

Even for this evil man.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. Even with pressure from the Bush administration the military only nudged a single death sentance

of a serial killer and rapist who had been on death row twenty years towards execution, he was granted a further appeal and no action has been taken since.

Hasan K. Akbar was sentenced to death for a similar attack in Kuwait in 2003. Still alive.

As the military doesn't need to win elections by looking tough on crime and as transporting an individual back to the US just isn't that burdensome the military death penalty is just a bureaucratic nuisance and legal anachronism.

[Boom Sound 416]

11. I've evolved on the death penalty

He should get life.

I'll be happy to throw in a few bucks on that bill. Isn't he paralyzed too? Good. Let him sit confined for 24 hours a day in a box until he croaks.

[NuclearDem]

15. Torture isn't a good idea either.

Which is what confining someone in a cell for 24 hours a day is.

[Boom Sound 416]

16. Oohhh kay. I'll concede that

23 hours?

[aikoaiko]

12. I can live with that.