Wednesday 28 August 2013

Fort Hood Killer Sentenced to Death.

So, as expected, the Fort Hood killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist who gunned down 43 of his comrades - killing 13 - all the while screaming 'Allahu Akbar!' has been sentenced to death by legal injection today, as reported by the BBC (hat-tip to David Vance @DVATW):

Nidal Hasan gets death penalty for Fort Hood rampage

A former US Army psychiatrist has been sentenced to die by lethal injection for killing 13 soldiers at a Texas Army base, a military jury has decided.

Maj Nidal Hasan, 42, was convicted last week of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, in which 32 others were also injured.

The defendant had tried to admit his guilt but military law bans guilty pleas in death penalty cases.

The Virginia-born Muslim said he opened fire to protect Taliban insurgents from troops about to deploy to Afghanistan.

His court-appointed lawyers have previously told the judge they suspect he is seeking execution in a bid for martyrdom.

'Never a martyr'

The jury handed down its sentence after two hours of deliberations on Wednesday.

But it could be years, possibly decades, before Maj Hasan is executed because of the long appeals process in the military justice system.

His execution must eventually be authorised by the president.

On Wednesday before the sentence was handed down, prosecutor Col Mike Mulligan urged jurors to opt for a rare military death penalty.

"He will not now and he will never be a martyr," Col Mulligan said of Maj Hasan. "He is a criminal. He is a cold-blooded murderer."

"This is not his gift to God. This is his debt to society. This is the cost of his murderous rampage."

"He will never be a martyr because he has nothing to give," Col Mulligan added. "He will not be giving his life, we will be taking it."

Maj Hasan, who represented himself, declined to speak on his own behalf, saying only: "I have no closing statement."

The 13-member jury had to come to a unanimous agreement in order to sentence Maj Hasan to death, otherwise he would have faced life in prison.

The US military has not executed a service member since 1961. There are five inmates on the US military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, all at various stages of the appeals process.

Maj Hasan opened fire at a medical facility on the Fort Hood base where soldiers were being evaluated before deploying overseas.

The trial heard he had prepared carefully for the attack, during which he fired 146 bullets.

The shooting spree ended when he was shot by a civilian police officer.

He was paralysed from the waist down from the wound and now uses a wheelchair.

Of course, it will be years, if ever, until this savage is executed, he could die of his injuries before it ever goes through & that is not, necessarily a bad thing. All it will really achieve is for other lowlife savages to proclaim him a martyr & drool over the obscene reward he'll be getting in their imaginary heaven. Plus, while he's alive, there is always the chance that he'll find Jesus, a lot of dirt bags do while in prison, think what a coup against Islamic supremacism that could be.

All that remains for us to do is to take pause & remember the victims:

Aaron Nemelka Amy Krueger Frederick Greene Jason Hunt John Gaffaney Juanita Warman Justin DeCrow
Also killed on that day was Francheska Velez's unborn baby as she curled on the floor begging Hasan not to shoot.
Kham Xiong Libardo Caraveo Michael Cahill Michael Pearson Russell Seager Francheska Velez

And also to remember what killed them:

And kill them wherever you find & catch them. Drive them out from where they have turned you out; for Fitna is worse than slaughter. Koran 2:191

Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: 'Wipe the infidels out to the last.' Koran 8:7

Your Lord inspired the angels with the message: 'I am with you. Give firmness to the Believers. I will terrorise the unbelievers. Therefore smite them on their necks & every joint & incapacitate them. Strike off their heads & cut off each of their fingers & toes.' Koran 8:12

So fight them until there is no more Fitna & all submit to the religion of Allah alone. Koran 8:39

Fight & kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait & ambush them using every stratagem of war. Koran 9:5

Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the last day, nor do they prohibit what Allah & His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the jizya in acknowledgement of superiority & they are in a state of subjection. Koran 9:29

The Messenger & those who believe with him, strive hard & fight with their wealth & lives in Allah's Cause. Koran 9:88

Allah has purchased the believers, their lives & their goods. For them (in return) is the Garden. They fight in Allah's Cause, & they slay & are slain; they kill & are killed. Koran 9:111

Truly, if the Hypocrites stir up sedition, if the agitators in the City do not desist, We shall urge you to go against them & set you over them. Then they will not be able to stay as your neighbours for any length of time. They shall have a curse on them. Whenever they are found, they shall be seized & slain without mercy – a fierce slaughter – murdered, a horrible murdering. Koran 33:60

So, when you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle, smite their necks until you overpower them, killing & wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making captives. Thereafter, either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam. Koran 47:4

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