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I think blue team and red team can all agree this guy is an asshole.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-n...to-jury-today/
FORT HOOD, Texas – Jury deliberations began Thursday in the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who declined to give a closing argument at his trial on charges of killing 13 people and injuring 31 others in a shooting spree here four years ago.
A military prosecutor, in his closing, pressed the jury of 13 Army officers for a unanimous murder conviction that could lead to the death penalty.
Col. Steve Henricks repeatedly emphasized the word “premeditation,” and claimed that Hasan’s use of laser sights “established intent to kill.”
A day earlier, Hasan told the judge, Col. Tara Osborn — with no jury present — that he agreed that his crime was not “done under heat of passion.” He added that “there was adequate provocation — that these were deploying soldiers that were going to engage in an illegal war.”
Military prosecutors called 89 witnesses and entered hundreds of pieces of evidence detailing the gory scene at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, when prosecutors say Hasan opened fire on soldiers – killing 12 and one civilian – in a busy medical processing center.
Hasan, representing himself, called no witnesses on his behalf during the trial.
Hasan, 42, has admitted to being the gunman in the shooting. More so than guilt, a central question in the four-year-old case has been whether Hasan gets the death penalty or life in prison, said Geoffrey Corn, a former Army judge advocate who teaches military and national security law at South Texas College of Law in Houston. Hasan has been passive through the guilt phase of the trial in order to reach the sentencing phase, where he would have more leeway in voicing his opinions and could talk about what motivated him to turn his gun on fellow soldiers, he said.
“He really believes what he did was right,” Corn said. “But he’s not allowed to talk about that in the guilt phase. He only gets to talk about that in the sentencing phase.”
I think blue team and red team can all agree this guy is an asshole.
Do not give this the pleasure of the death penalty.
yeah, keep him in prison at $30K/month for decades.
We keep prisoners for lesser crimes for the same length he'll serve, his martyrdom he's hoping for.
OK, we got a guilty verdict. I wouldn't have thought it would take more than 5 minutes.
now the penalty phase
Hasan, who acted as his own attorney, began the trial by telling jurors he was the gunman. But he said little else over the next three weeks, which convinced his court-appointed standby lawyers that Hasan's only goal was to get a death sentence.
As the trial progressed, those su ions grew. The military called nearly 90 witnesses, but Hasan rested his case without calling a single person to testify in his defense and made no closing argument. Yet he leaked do ents during the trial to journalists that revealed him telling military mental health workers that he could "still be a martyr" if executed.
Death sentences are rare in the military and trigger automatic appeals that take decades to play out. Among the final barriers to execution is authorization from the president. No American soldier has been executed since 1961.
Torn on this one. Maybe he is leaking this "martyrdom" deal to get exactly this reaction and spare his life?
The guy IS a trained shrink.
This. Let Meals On Wheels roll around for a decade or so until he dies in prison.
No Martyrdom for You!!
He won't last that long. Paras and Quads die younger than usual, and this Hasan is already 43. He might see 55.
The death penalty would cost even more.
Not if he doesn't appeal, which by all accounts appears to be his intention.
I really need to look up the "death penalty costs more" argument, since it is so unintuitive.
I'm fine killing this er, and I'm also fine locking him up in solitary forever. Either is good
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