Fort Hood murderer 'could face death penalty' as U.S. Army chiefs wrangle over his fate

The U.S. Army psychiatrist who slaughtered 13 people on a Texas military base could face the death penalty as officials wrangle over his fate, it has emerged.

Major Nadal Hasan was said to have cried out 'Allahu akbar!' before he opened fire on troops and civilians, killing 13 and injuring 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. His fate now lies in the hands of brigade commander Col. Morgan Lamb, who is due to release a report in which he is expected to recommend a court martial.

The guy murders 13 people and he might not face the death penalty? Makes you wonder what it would take, doesn't it?

That's simple, actually accomplishing the deaths of the President, 4 or 5 Supreme Court Justices, and a couple dozen Senators & Representatives.
Those killed were peons, well, below-peons actually; the normal citizen is a peon, but they [military] were signed up to defend America, and that means that their lives are worth even less. [/governmental-thinking]

Just look at the government's [lack of] response to the Tea Parties --this may or may not be changing, as we had a pretty nice turnover last-election-- as compared to their responses to the Giffords incident. On the one hand you have a non-violent protest-group numbering in the MILLIONS, and on the other a SINGLE political malcontent who dared to strike out at one of the ruling class... and observe that Hasan killed near TWICE as many as the Giffords-guy did and the relative outcry/alarm between the two; it's so supremely messed-up that I submit to you that only something like the above hitting the politically-powerful would result in a death-penalty. {It's worth wondering how/if things for the Guantanamo-bay captives would have gone differently if the 9/11 pentagon-flight had hit one of the Houses (while in-session) instead.}

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