The Ft. Hood trial is over and Nadal Hasan has been sentenced to death. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that the Army can just take him outside and shoot him – something he seems to want - along with most everyone who has followed the case.
Under the UCMJ, a death sentence requires an automatic appeal, so all that was really accomplished yesterday is that Hasan is no longer a Major (loss of rank and privileges) or a member of the US military (dishonorable discharge) and he will be transported to Leavenworth to await his fate.
I am not a big Sean Hannity fan. I find him hard to listen to because he wastes so much time telling you what he is going to talk about when he could just be talking. But generally, I tend to agree with most of what he says.
Yesterday, though, Hannity said something really stupid!
In discussing the Hasan verdict, he said (paraphrasing) It’s a good thing the trial was held in Texas – Those people don’t mess around when it comes to the death penalty.
What????
Sorry, Sean. The trial was a military court martial held on a military reservation. Texas law, or for that matter, Texas attitudes had nothing to do with it at all!
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