Fort Hood shooter ruled ‘sane’
Sometimes I love being several hours behind the East coast time zone that way I can have the fun of getting to pass along news that it less then a hour old.
KILLEEN, Texas — The US Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree on a Texas army base has been ruled sane and thus fit for trial, a source familiar with the case said.
The ruling by a group of medical experts, called a sanity board, opens the door for a court martial that could end in the execution of Major Nidal Hasan, who was paralyzed from the neck down during the November 5, 2009 massacre.
Neither prosecutors nor retired Army Colonel John Galligan, a veteran military lawyer representing Hasan, 40, would confirm the board’s decision.
But Galligan suggested it went against his client, who worked at Fort Hood until the shooting.
“I’m not going to say what they ruled,” he told AFP. “I would just say this: I don’t think the report will be anything that will be an impediment to the charges from the government’s perspective.”
So that should throw the insanity plea, but it is being said that the trial could be as long as a year out from now.
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One year, two years – however long it takes.
I still volunteer to be on the execution squad — shooting, injection, hanging, or electrocution. And that’s only after I rub his body with pork product. No paradise and 72 virgins for that muzzy.
Woody…don’t do the pork product. It’s my understanding it’s Virginians, not virgins. I know a bunch that are waiting to meet this son of a bitch.
Honor and Courage
It shouldn’t take that long, since the goatfucker was witnessed doing it and was shot by police in the commission of doing more.
Take his goatfucking ass out back and shoot the sonavabich NOW! (of course, dip the ammo in pig’s blood, first, and have him witness you doing so) If the issue is finding someone to do it; give me a call, I’ll bring the rifle and I’ll even bring the ammo and pig’s blood. It won’t cost the government a penny, I’ll do it all free of charge.
Hasan will never hang, never face execution, never feel a needle.
He’s paralyzed. Have they EVER executed someone in that condition?
I doubt he’ll ever see the inside of a real prison- he’ll be in a ‘rehab’ type hospital rest of his life. WISHING for a bullet, I hope..
Just to follow up, Death Penalty Information Center does not list a paraplegic having ever been put to death in the US.
I just heard the other day that the only company in the US that produces the drugs for lethal injection has stopped producing them. If that is true (I haven’t attempted to verify that), then that means we’re left with shooting, hanging, electrocution, or the gas chamber.
I have to agree with above. We’ll never see this piece of slime executed.
Indeed, PN:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110122/us-execution-drug-shortage/
Time to dust off the needle.