The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the convictions and death sentences imposed on in the mass shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded 32.
The appeals court ruled that the military judge did not err in allowing Major Hasan to represent himself at trial and sentencing and in denying standby counsel’s motion for the independent presentation of mitigation evidence. The court also rejected the defense’s argument that the trial should have been moved to a different venue because of extensive prejudicial pretrial publicity. Among other issues, the court also denied the defense’s challenges to the composition of the jury, saying that a juror who had a bumper sticker that read “Major League Infidel” could fairly and impartially decide Major Hasan’s case.
and the major said, hey, it s to show the government lost government property, essentially. and i wanted to speak up really badly and i looked at major hasan, he kind of shook his head like don t do it. what i wanted to say is it means a hell of a lot more than the government lost some property. it means that that dog saved our lives and then was taken out of the battle from my crew from there on out. you talk about yourself having a life sentence. and others who were injured as well having a life sentence. yeah. for sure. i mean, think about master sergeant allen. you know, takes him an hour his wife, it takes her an hour to get him out of his bed. so essentially master sergeant allen has a life sentence. he can t speak. he can t interact with his family. his wife has a life sentence. his children have a life sentence. you know, specialist morita who was hit in the hand with a rocket-propelled grenade, can t use his hand. you know, that s a life
outreach. is this pc run amok? yeah, this is a replay of major hasan who gave a power point presentation that talked about terrorism and everybody in the room was uncomfortable and he was promoted and sent to ft. hood. people don t want to be pegged as bigots and they are not bigots if they are concerned. i don t know how you can miss an arsenal being built in a garage and the behavior of people coming and going. and one of the neighbors said they didn t want to be pegged as an islamaphobe. but this fountainhead of jihadism coming out of isis land and spread to paris and london and across the globe.
allahu akbar as he was killing people on a military base. aren t we making a critical mistake that we have this unnatural mysterious reluctance resistance almost petrified fear of identifying the enemy. he won t say radical islam. isn t that a mistake? i think that may be. it s tricky ground, sean. why is it tricky? major hasan screaming allahu akbar. that s the official position to this day. there is a level of dishonesty here that the president is afraid to identify our enemies that are sworn on killing military men in recruiting stations military men that are not allowed to even defend themselves. i don t disagree. with that notion. i think there is certainly a
i think there s been a lot reported on that. i can t tell you much other than his name of the suspect we have in custody and that is hassan, major hasan. major nidal hasan killed 13 people that day at ft. hood, injured 32 others with a high-powered handgun he modified, he added laser sights to that hand gun. he was an american citizen, a practicing muslim. he had expressed anti-american and anti-american military views during his time serving in the army and working as a psychiatrist at walter reed. hasan served as his own attorney during his court-martial, which is always a bad idea. he was sentenced to death. he s now one of six people on the u.s. military s death row. so that was the ft. hood shooting. that was the worst mass shooting on a u.s. military installation in american history. the following year, october 2010, there were a rash of shootings.