Ranging Reporter update: How should the Fort Hood gunman be punished?
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Ranging Reporter JJ Velasquez asked people about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood gunman, at IHOP on Thursday. The military justice system has not used the death penalty since 1961, according to the Associated Press. Velasquez asked people how they feel Hasan should be punished.
A: "Even though he was a psychologist, he should be examined. I believe he deserves the same opportunity as a civilian. I just think it's a tragic thing that happened."
Salomon Munoz, pastor, Houston
A: "If they can give him life without parole, that would be better. The death penalty is final, so he wouldn't be suffering for what he did."
Lewis Albrecht, retired, New Braunfels
A: "I think he should get the death penalty. He's a United State citizen. He should have been well aware of the punishment for murder, and that's what it was - murder."
Linda Bishop, retired, Smiley
A: "I think you already have the most that he can get. I think if you have the death penalty, he should get the death penalty. It was a terrorist act."
Nita Smith, retired, Victoria
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http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_Pr... Go to page number 29, scroll down toward the bottom on the Left Column…
Some might find this real interesting. Nidal Hasan was on Obama’s Homeland Security team. This maybe the reason Obama is not jumping up and down over the Ft. Hood shootings…
November 18, 2009 at 8:08 a.m.Life without parole at HARD labor. Give him the rest of his life to think about what he did. Swinging a 20 lbs. sledge hammer from dawn to dusk with limited food and water rations and only life saving medical services provided. Firing squad is to quick to send a message to others. Cheaper but not the right way to go. Too easy on him! Make him suffer!
November 18, 2009 at 4:25 a.m.i think he should be facing death. not only is he in the united state army, he went against his brothers and killed them. that is a disgrace upon all disgraces. he killed like what 13 people?! so of coarse he should get the death penality!!!!!
November 17, 2009 at 9:54 a.m.Stake him down naked in a fire ant bed with honey all over his body.
November 16, 2009 at 1:43 p.m.After the formalities of his conviction are completed, I think a free trip to Afghanistan via military transport would be appropriate. Then have him parachute safely out of the plane over one of our Army bases at, say about 10,00 feet. He can plan his next life and count his virgins on the way down.
November 15, 2009 at 8:49 a.m.They shouldnt go easy on him for one! he should get the death penalty like everyone else does,ASAP!!!!!!! sorry do say but?
November 14, 2009 at 6:17 p.m.I think we should handle him like they do in the middle east. Chop off both of his hands because he used them to hold the gun. Chop off both of his feet because he used then to get around while killing his victims. Then chop off his head. If he survives, let him go free.
November 14, 2009 at 11:07 a.m.Life and a day at HARD labor in Ft. Levinworth Ks.,Wheelchair of not. Let him think about his crimes for the rest of his natural life. He can get his male virgins later, after he dies a long hard death.
November 14, 2009 at 3:49 a.m.Let's put the political correctness crap out. This guy killed 13 people, that we know. Why he did it, that we know. He wanted to die that day, that we should not give him. He needs to be sent to the Supermax in CO and let him live the rest of his miserable life there, in a wheel chair. And please, please, do not bring buzzards and pigs into the picture, they are nothing but beautiful animals and there is a good chance that they would get sick if they eat him. And for those people that claimed that he was a soldier, he was not. He wore the uniform; wearing the uniform does not make you a soldier. Our institution failed those soldiers and if anything comes out of this, it should be to help us weed out these type of individuals that have more royalty to the Sharia than our Constitution. And for those that are fanatics in defending this guy and his religious' view and bring the fact that there are many Christian fanatics, well, there are plenty of people that refuse to enlist because is against their beliefs. If this guy was really against what we stood as a military, he should had left back in 2001, when he was barely starting medical school.
November 13, 2009 at 10:25 p.m.He was given the death sentence on that day by the female officer, but he survived. They should poll the families of the victims and find out what they think. Treat him like a science project and then throw him to the bowels of our prison system for a while and then bury him in a paupers grave with no honers.
November 12, 2009 at 10:11 p.m.I'd hang him, then stuff him down a wood chipper and feed him to pigs. No virgins for you buddy.
November 12, 2009 at 4:04 p.m.No way I would martyr this guy. Life in prison would probably be the best route.
November 12, 2009 at 3:09 p.m.In accordance with the laws set forth by our nation. He should be tried before a military court and declared guilty he should be punished in accordance with the law.
I find myself in General Sam Houston's shoes at this point. While all these crazies are hollering for death, I find myself wanting more. We should find out why he did what he did, what made him go from thoughts and talk to action. We need to learn from this event so that similar mistakes are not made later.
Most importantly WE MUST NOT LET THIS JUSTIFY THE DISCRIMINATION OF ISLAMIC SOLDIERS/CITIZENS.
November 12, 2009 at 2:50 p.m.wingrider...Instead of buzzards, why not feed him to the pigs?
November 12, 2009 at 2:43 p.m.Death! No punishment in this world could make this coward suffer enough. So, after sentence is passed, I suggest a firing squad using 50 caliber machine guns and what's remaining of him, throw out to the buzzards.
November 12, 2009 at 1:50 p.m.Male virgins at that!!! Nobody said they had to be female....
November 12, 2009 at 1:16 p.m.Life in a solitary prison cell shared with a poster of the 72 vigins he didn't get.
November 12, 2009 at 1:09 p.m.MILITARY FIRING SQUAD!!!
November 12, 2009 at 12:05 p.m.I'm wondering why he was transported to the hospital in the first place. Look at all the money wasted on saving his worthless life. Now, he's gonna be tried, convicted and sentenced. Death is appropriate but not assured. He should have been allowed to bleed out on the floor after he was shot. I'll bet a Whopper against a Big Mac that the cop used a 9MM. I'm thinkin' a .45 would have been more effective.
November 12, 2009 at 11:37 a.m.the only good snake is a dead snake! draw your own conclusions about what that means! that's what I mean exactly! he should be turned over to our neighbors directly to our southern border! they know how to take care of business with no qualms whatsoever!
November 12, 2009 at 10:49 a.m.DEATH!!!
November 12, 2009 at 10:24 a.m.I think he should face death by firing squad. Quick, cheap, and im SURE you could find a squad of soldiers who wouldn't have a problem with it. He didn't seem to.
November 12, 2009 at 10:21 a.m.