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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2013 #2

  Does the military still hang them or is it now lethal injection? Isn't he in a chair? If they hang him do they drop him in the chair?

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2013 #3

  To answer Steven's question, here's a good synopsis of the lengthy appeals process. AND the President has to sign off.
  
  http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/jury-sentences-nidal-hasan-to-death-for-rampage

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,316 Senior Member

  August 2013 #4

  greenman wrote: »

  Does the military still hang them or is it now lethal injection? Isn't he in a chair? If they hang him do they drop him in the chair?

  From what I've read, lethal injection.

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2013 #5

  Well good cause it would be a shame to dent a perfectly good chair dropping it.

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,316 Senior Member

  August 2013 #6

  Ninny. You put him in a folding chair for the hanging.

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• Goldenladle Super Moderator Posts: 3,928 Senior Member

  August 2013 #7

  I am usually against death penalties; having said that though, our intrepid villain wants to be a martyr so by killing him we are doing what he wants. Having him spend the rest of his life in a little brick room would be the right punishment. No 40 virgins, and no hero of the radical Muslim world.
  
  Just a thought

  Moved to Montana, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

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• George K Super Moderator Posts: 11,687 Senior Member

  August 2013 #8

  Goldenladle wrote: »

  I am usually against death penalties; having said that though, our intrepid villain wants to be a martyr so by killing him we are doing what he wants. Having him spend the rest of his life in a little brick room would be the right punishment. No 40 virgins, and no hero of the radical Muslim world.
  
  Just a thought

  
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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  August 2013 #9

  who gives a **** what he wants? This isn't about what he wants. This is about what he owes. Anything less than the death penalty depreciates the seriousness of the crime and is simply inappropriate as punishment.
  
  What mitigation do you see here? Youthful offender? No. Cognitive defects? No. He's a military officer and a psychiatrist. Residual doubt? No. His guilt is not in doubt.
  
  I think this "don't give him what he wants!!" canard is a dodge. If you are opposed to capital punishment, say so. But I say what this guy wants or doesn't want is irrelevant. its what he owes that matters.

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,316 Senior Member

  August 2013 #10

  Goldenladle wrote: »

  I am usually against death penalties; having said that though, our intrepid villain wants to be a martyr so by killing him we are doing what he wants. Having him spend the rest of his life in a little brick room would be the right punishment. No 40 virgins, and no hero of the radical Muslim world.
  
  Just a thought

  On the other hand holding back the death penalty will give validity to his radical beliefs, and we're making a political statement with our treatment of him.
  
  I'm willing to give him the death penalty if we treat him like a murderer and a criminal, not a Islamic extremist.

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• Goldenladle Super Moderator Posts: 3,928 Senior Member

  August 2013 #11

  breamfisher wrote: »

  
  I'm willing to give him the death penalty if we treat him like a murderer and a criminal, not a Islamic extremist.

  
  Pretty hard to separate the two.

  Moved to Montana, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

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• FishTX Super Moderator Posts: 9,005 Senior Member

  August 2013 #12

  Or we could just give him life at hard labor on pig farm. I'm with Earl, but we need a public statement that he gets the death penalty for murder and that is the sole reason for the sentence. Hassan has made a statement about his beliefs. We need to make it clear why he is getting the death penalty and it has nothing to do with Islam. He was a soldier that turned on his country and murdered people, period.

  "We have to find someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."
  
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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,316 Senior Member

  August 2013 #13

  Goldenladle wrote: »

  Pretty hard to separate the two.

  See FishTX's statement. He's getting the death penalty because he's a murderer. His motives are immaterial in that they're not mitigating.
  
  On the other hand, if we keep him in prison for life we're saying that his motives DO matter. Death penalty says we don't really care about them, or what he wants.

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• Goldenladle Super Moderator Posts: 3,928 Senior Member

  August 2013 #14

  You don't have to sell it to me, I get it. I was merely pointing out the "40 Virgins" martyrdom BS.
  
  My post ended with "just a thought" I'm pushing no agenda here.

  Moved to Montana, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

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• breamfisher Senior Member Posts: 6,316 Senior Member

  August 2013 #15

  Gotcha. And for the record, if he were kept in a prison until he died, I'd be fine with that, too.

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• MikeA Senior Member Posts: 6,255 Senior Member

  August 2013 #16

  Can we use the bodies of the two youths that killed the 88 year old vet to beat this guy to death??

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• bakerloo Banned Posts: 980 Senior Member

  August 2013 #17

  They should use him for water board practice every day until his appeals are exhausted.

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