Fort Hood killer faces possible death penalty

[pjbleek]

A U.S. Army General Wednesday approved a possible death penalty in the future military trial of Major Nidal Hasan, the American Muslim accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas.

Hasan is charged with those homicides and the wounding of 32 others in a lone-gunman shooting spree on November 5, 2009.

 

[porterjack]

i hate the death penalty

 

[Darrell]

Good.

Also, he needs to be tried for treason. The highest capital crime, punishable by death.

18 USC governs the act of treason, and as I recall it says something to the effect of "Any American who levies war against the United States or aids an enemy of the country while on U.S. soil is subject to the death penalty."

They are going to get him for those murders, no doubt. I want to see him tried for treason as well.

 

[BadBoy]

i hate the death penalty

Why? Its supposed to be a deterrent, but as you can see, it isn't. What I hate about the death penalty is how long it takes to execute. Get rid of them quickly, no burden on the system. You get two appeals and done and they must be completed within 2 years.

 

[porterjack]

Why? Its supposed to be a deterrent, but as you can see, it isn't. What I hate about the death penalty is how long it takes to execute. Get rid of them quickly, no burden on the system. You get two appeals and done and they must be completed within 2 years.

why? because far too often the prosecution get it wrong and an innocent person goes to jail

why? becasue it is not a deterrent, if it were folk would think twice before commiting serious offences that might be punishable by death

and lastly because it is barbaric and no so called civilised soceity should ever sanction death

 

[darkcgi]

all I can say is I do not want any of my paycheck money to pay for this guys
food and well being

 

[BadBoy]

why? because far too often the prosecution get it wrong and an innocent person goes to jail

why? becasue it is not a deterrent, if it were folk would think twice before commiting serious offences that might be punishable by death

and lastly because it is barbaric and no so called civilised soceity should ever sanction death

Far too often? You've been watching too many Lifetime movie specials of the week.

Its not a deterrent because the current legal system is flawed beyond repair.

Its more barbaric that people walk around killing other human beings and their only punishment would be to sit in jail for the rest of their life sponging off the taxpayers while the families of the lost ones have to suffer. That's barbaric.

 

[porterjack]

Far too often? You've been watching too many Lifetime movie specials of the week.

Its not a deterrent because the current legal system is flawed beyond repair.

Its more barbaric that people walk around killing other human beings and their only punishment would be to sit in jail for the rest of their life sponging off the taxpayers while the families of the lost ones have to suffer. That's barbaric.

took 30 seconds to find this link

http://www.antideathpenalty.org/DPcases.html

i did not count maybe a dozen cases

one is too many

 

[BadBoy]

took 30 seconds to find this link

http://www.antideathpenalty.org/DPcases.html

i did not count maybe a dozen cases

one is too many

The price of war is always costly. It is unfortunate, which is why I said our legal system is flawed. However, so many guilty walk free, it makes that dozen or so seem very tiny in the grand scheme.

 

[porterjack]

The price of war is always costly. It is unfortunate, which is why I said our legal system is flawed. However, so many guilty walk free, it makes that dozen or so seem very tiny in the grand scheme.

nothing to do with war and if the guilty walk free improve the system

killing for a sense of retribution/revenge/justice is savage

 

[BadBoy]

It is a war on crime. Savage for some, justice for others. One man's opinion is another man's argument.

 

[porterjack]

It is a war on crime. Savage for some, justice for others. One man's opinion is another man's argument.

you will never convince me nor i you

peace to you

 

[darkcgi]

I hope he walks free.
So he can make more like himself and possibly do it again
and so I can pay for it all.

 

[darkcgi]

I am barbaric
off with the head
save money for the good guys in this world

 

[skyblue]

i think a good deterrent would be a before and after view of a prisoners ringpiece

 

[darkcgi]

they used to hang bad guys in the middle of the city
and let all see what awaits them if they are bad

 

[darkcgi]

public beheading

 

[Panacea]

The thing is, murders like this cannot be deterred with any sort punishment, they usually result from people who cannot use reason or are mentally unstable. Tell a crazy man he will be ass raped for 70 years if he kills and he will still kill if the urge is there.

There isn't a lot of justice in the world, there really isn't.