Today’s story isn’t something that you hear about everyday, which, frankly, is a good thing. After all, we’re talking about people who have done something so terrible, so absolutely horrible that the military gave them the death penalty.
The military hasn’t “carried out the death penalty since 1961,” says Jonathan J. Cooper with the Associated Press.
That means that they haven’t had this situation come up in the last 65 years at the time of this writing.
But today’s story gets even more extreme. We’re actually talking about the first military execution since World War II (January 1945, to be exact).
It almost seems unreal to realize that. Cooper gives us the details:
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961. The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X.
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote.
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted “Allahu akbar” — Arabic for “God is great!” — and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 injured.
He said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims and made almost no effort to defend himself at trial. He told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had “switched sides.”
Hasan did horrible things, and, now, it sounds like he’ll meet a horrible end, but that’s not to say that it’s going to happen quickly. Cooper notes that a number of procedural options to delay the execution are available to Hasan should he decide to use them.
We’ll have to see whether he will or not.
What is clear is that an unusual day has come in which our military is taking doing the right thing to an extraordinary level. Is that a change from how it has been? I actually can’t answer that question. I’m only saying that it is a high level of expectation, and that we have an unexpected end result to this horrible situation.
FIRST OF ALL YOU WEAK SNIVELING NON COMBATANTS PUT YOU TAPON AND BOX OF KLEENEX AWAY. THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SYMPATHY FOR YOU YOU WILL FIND IT INMERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY. THIS MAN CAME TO OUR COUNTRY OUT OF THE BENEVOLENCE OF OUR HEARTS AND YOU BETRAYED US BY SNAKE LIKE DECEPTION. YOU HELD A RESPONSIBLE POSITION AS A MAJOR IN ONE THE BEST MILITARIES THE ARMY THEN PROCEEDED TO CARRY OUT MURDER 1 ON VULNERABLE MEN THAT DARED TO TRUST YOU. THERE COULD BE NO MORE OF AN INSULT WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT GAVE YOU A CHANCE AT FREEDOM AND A LIFESTYLE YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE IN THAT THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE TOU CAME FROM. I WOULD NOT SHOOT YOU I WOULD BEHEAD YOU AS MATTER OF HONORING THE WAY YOU LIKE WESTERNERS TO SEE YOU CUT HEADS OFF ON THURSDAYS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE. YOU THINK YOU CAN CAUSE FEAR IN US. WE NOT ARE AFRAID, BUT YOU SHOULD BE, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO YOUR PALACE, AND WITH YOUR 70 BLACKEYED.VIRGINS OR A LEXUS, YOUR GOING STRAIGHT HELL WHERE BELONG. AFTER “MURDERING” INNOCENT MEN AND WOUNDING OVER 30 THAT TRUSTED YOU. TRAITOR IS TO GOOD OF A WORD TO CALL YOU, BUT THEN I THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT. OH BY THEY THERE WILL NEVER A CALIPHATES FOR YOU MUSLIMS, YOUR NOT THAT SMART. BYE!