Trump orders military base mass shooter to be executed by firing squad:
Former army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan faces death penalty for shooting dead 12 active-duty soldiers and a retired serviceman in 2009
Donald Trump has ordered the rare use of a firing squad for the execution of a former army major who killed 13 people in Texas in 2009.
Former army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan’s method of execution was approved by the president at the recommendation of defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said.
Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood on 5 November 2009, killing 12 active-duty but unarmed soldiers and a retired serviceman and injured 32 people. He was sentenced to death after being convicted on 45 counts of premeditated murder in 2013 for opening fire with a laser-sighted handgun in a medical facility at the Texas military base.
The shooting came weeks before Hasan, now 56, was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan. Prosecutors said he was motivated by unwillingness to be sent to Afghanistan and the shooting was in retaliation for America’s wars in the Muslim world.
Hasan was left partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair from being shot by police upon his arrest.
Parnell said the "judgment day for Hasan has finally come" and that the date and place of his death would be set by the secretary of the army.
Death by firing squad was one of the forms of capital punishment the Trump administration recently added to the list of permissible methods of execution for the gravest of federal crimes, along with gas asphyxiation and electrocution. The number of federal execution options was expanded in part because of increasing difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections, which had also proved challenging to carry out for other reasons at times. --->READ MORE HERE
Fort Hood jihadist faces death — now Washington must purge its policy of lies:
Sixteen years after his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the United States Army is preparing to formally recommend the execution of Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan — at last.
President Donald Trump, when he receives that request, should swiftly order Hasan’s death: That would be necessary justice.
But it will not absolve our government for its years-long policy of lies and euphemisms surrounding Islamic radicalism that empowered Hasan to kill 13 service members — a policy that began under President George W. Bush and continued through the Obama and Biden administrations.
Fort Hood was not an unexpected “tragedy.”
It was a preventable act of jihad, made possible by institutions that treated the truth about Islamist violence as more dangerous than the violence itself.
Hasan, an Army major who was given preferential treatment solely because of his Muslim religion and Arab ethnicity, murdered 13 Americans and wounded 33 others at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov. 5, 2009.
Hasan screamed “Allahu Akbar” as he emptied his pistols into unarmed soldiers — then walked up and down the abattoir, shooting the wounded.
I had the honor of representing Hasan’s victims and their families in a lawsuit filed against the Army and the FBI in 2012.
We sued because the government knew Hasan was an incompetent doctor and a terror threat, but chose not to act.
Hasan’s hatred for Americans was well-known.
During his Army medical training he spouted justifications for suicide bombing, defended Osama bin Laden and said his religion trumped the Constitution.
His business card read “Soldier of Allah.”
Two different Army officers, an instructor and a colleague, separately called him a “ticking time bomb.”
Yet his official officer evaluation reports “sanitized his obsession with violent Islamist extremism into praiseworthy research on counterterrorism,” a 2011 Senate investigation found.
He was promoted to major despite manifestly poor performance — and credible evidence that he called PTSD-afflicted Americans “war criminals” in treatment sessions, urging them to convert to Islam to avoid damnation. --->READ MORE HERE
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