Fort Hood Gunman Is Sentenced to Death by Military Jury Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who admitted shooting to kill in a Fort Hood building here packed with unarmed soldiers nearly four years ago, once said he wished he had died in the attack so he could become a Muslim martyr. On Wednesday, after deliberating a little more than two hours, a jury of Army combat veterans and senior officers granted him his wish, sentencing him to death by lethal injection for killing or wounding more than 40 soldiers on Nov. 5, 2009. The same jury had found Major Hasan guilty last Friday of 45 counts of murder and attempted murder in a shooting rampage that a Senate report called the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001. His desire for martyrdom appeared to weigh on the military jury. The sentence suggested that the jury agreed with the Army’s lead prosecutor, Col. Michael Mulligan, who told them earlier in the morning in his closing argument that Major Hasan was not and never would be a martyr. “Do not be fooled,” Colonel Mulligan said. “He is not giving his life. We are taking his life. This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society.” READ MORE » nytimes/2013/08/29/us/jury-weighs-sentence-for-fort-hood-shooting.html?emc=edit_na_20130828
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 08:23:49 +0000
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