Posted on 11/10/2009 6:58:40 AM PST by NoObamaFightForConservatives
WASHINGTON - Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday.
FBI and Army investigators tried to interview Hasan, who is recovering from bullet wounds in a San Antonio, Tex., Army hospital, on Sunday, but he refused and demanded a lawyer.
Under the military system, Hasan's fellow Army officers - almost certainly combat veterans - will rule on whether he is guilty of the mass murder of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood, and, if so, on his punishment. A death penalty would be carried out by lethal injection.
The last military execution was carried out in 1961, and the last execution in a federal court case was in 2003.
If Hasan receives the death penalty in a military court, his appeals could drag on for years. Nine soldiers are on military Death Row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; one has been there for more than 20 years.
In the first legal challenge in the Hasan case, lawyer John Galligan, who has been retained by Hasan's family, said a planned visit today by President Obama to Fort Hood for a memorial service could prejudice a potential jury.
"You've got his commander in chief showing up" at Fort Hood to meet with troops and comfort families, said Galligan, 60, of nearby Belton, Tex.
Obama's planned visit "creates an issue as to whether you find a fair and impartial forum, whether that's in the military or even if it were in a federal forum," the retired Army colonel added.
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A suitable sentence
If Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is convicted, what sentence do you think he should get?
Prison for the rest of his life
The death penalty
Neither, he clearly needs help and should be housed in a secure psychiatric center
Make sure he knows he's going to hell as a coward.
Execution by firing squad, with bullets dipped in bacon fat - NO 72 Virgins for you!
Good. But I’m sure Obama will change that, in one way or another.
The sooner the better.

As Col. Flagg said:
I have enough evidence here to have you executed for the rest of your life.
it will NEVER happen. PC rules say it would inflame muslims causing a severe backlash. he may be sentenced to death, but it will never, ever happen (unless and until PC rules change). IMHO
With the bullets inserted manually, one at a time. /kotter
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First US Military Execution Since 1961 Scheduled for December Posted: November 21, 2008
UPDATE: The United States District Court for the District of Kansas entered a stay of execution in Private Ron Gray's case on November 26. The U.S. military had scheduled its first execution since 1961 for December 10. Two decades ago, Pvt. Ronald Gray was convicted and sentenced to death by a general court-martial panel at Fort Bragg for murder and rape committed in the Fayetteville area of North Carolina. Earlier, a North Carolina civilian court had convicted him of the same crimes, but that court sentenced him to a series of life terms, rather than death.
Yep I think so. See post # 11
It’s the 23% who voted in this poll that really bother me, particularly the 8%.
Firing squad composed of Jewish chicks in bikinis with bullets dipped in pig$h!+
If this doesn’t warrent the Death Sentence; what does one have to do?
The State of Texas could also try him after his court marshall and you could have two possibilities of a death sentence being carried out.
Hold an Executioner’s Lottery and balance the federal budget.
Stake hasan out over a giant fire ant hill and slit his skin
all over. What a beautiful picture.
78% for the death penalty. And hopefully another free-lance jihadi will be relieved of the burden of existence tonight: John Mohammed.
“If this doesnt warrent the Death Sentence; what does one have to do?”
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- Deploy the “N” word.
- Correctly label queers as the perverted degenerates that they are.
- And coming soon: Exercise ANY kind of moral judgmentalism in even the most obvious of situations.
Best idea I have heard yet. BUT.... it is so unpolitically correct so it won’t wash but good idea!
I hope so.
Have you ever heard of the Malaysian Chest Implosion Torture?
There’s no such thing ... yet.
And thank you for the ping, dear lady :)
Having said that, I think he needs the death penalty but it will take a long time for it to happen if history is any indicator.
You know just one more round to the head while the sh*tbag was laying there and we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Damn.
ping the news and the poll.
Injection is too mild.
LOL!!
Leni
This is the perfect media opportunity for dividing our military for Zero. They will hurt the families of dead privates, telling them he was a poor “persecuted muslim” and to suck it. With gays in the military, this is sure going to be one heck of an opportunity for Mr f@g Rahm Zero’s revenge of seeing their non liberals getting butt perfusion the way they take it like champs.
Think about it. Liberals supporting terrorists shooting our helos in Iraq at Democratic Underground during the Bush years, all supporting quietly the pedophile cool “Radical Chic” of Osama and Che etc...
We get the picture.
>If this doesnt warrant the Death Sentence; what does one have to do?
Things like:
- Sending a .22 round to your president or state senator/representative via UPS as a warning to quit acting in illegal [contra-constitutional] manners.
- Sending a bullet to a government official/bureaucrat in the conventional manner... especially if it happens to be you defending yourself against actions under color of law/office. (See Waco.)
How long till The Joker pardons him? What would you do if he was pardoned by Ears?
My guess is you all probably would do nothing.
Although my first instinct is definitely death, would that make him a martyr? If it put him in eternal disgrace to have failed (and taken down by a woman, at that), then let him rot in prison.
I agree but with Obama as POTUS he will be sent to Bermuda.
What would you do?
great answer!!!
I see the left putting together their talking points. :)
Hey I asked you first.
No really. What does civil disobedience mean?
Have you considered just stopping? You pay taxes?
I’m already thinking about leaving the country. Canadian socialism seems lighter than the tyrannical brand brewing here. I’ve got a line of work I could run from just about anywhere.
I have seriously thought about not paying federal taxes; in revolt and to not put me in the poor house not qualifying for welfare. Especially being that we will be paying for ObamaCare before the communism of it fully rules. But then, if you don’t pay your taxes... they garnish your savings, retirement, home, land and the pot you pee in. I am seriously considering a move to Tx. or La. (job wise this will work better as well but the jobs that pay for my move are not returning calls like they used to.) In hopes of theses states surely breaking away from the Obama communism.
Good to hear someone in Michigan has a job!
Yes, it is called compassionate communism of political correctness gone mad!
And the idiots kept believing Granholm and re-elected her. Oh, the same idiots re-elected Kwame, too.
It is strange. I had a job working for someone else. Then I quit as I could go my own way. Much happier now. People are losing their jobs. I quit mine. It'll be fun, as I pay for my own health insurance. It's less that $2K per year. Mother Pelosi won't like that.
The death penalty: 79%
Neither, he clearly needs help and should be housed in a
secure psychiatric center: 6%
I can’t believe the false messiah’s very appearance at a memorial at Fort Hood today will help the terrorist.
I can’t believe that his appearance will help the troops!
Slowly, with quotes from the Koran of the horrors of hell..., squirming against restraints under the calming glance of a Jewish physician...
Touche’ that as well.
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