Hasan guilty in mass murder at Fort Hood

AP/Houston Chronicle:

Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted Friday for the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, a shocking assault against American troops at home by one of their own who said he opened fire on fellow soldiers to protect Muslim insurgents abroad.

A jury of 13 high-ranking military officers reached a unanimous guilty verdict on all 13 counts of premeditated murder and a guilty verdict on 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. Hasan is now eligible for the death penalty.

Hasan stared at the jury with no visible reaction as the verdict was read. After he and jurors left the courtroom, some victims who survived the attack and victims' relatives began to cry.

The Army psychiatrist acknowledged carrying out the attack in a crowded waiting room where unarmed troops were making final preparations to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. Thirteen people were killed and more than were 30 wounded.

Because Hasan never denied his actions, the court-martial was always less about a conviction than it was about ensuring he received the death penalty. From the beginning of the case, the federal government has sought to execute Hasan, believing that any sentence short of a lethal injection would deprive the military and the families of the dead of the justice they have sought for nearly four years.
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Deliberation will begin Monday on whether he gets the death penalty.  Hopefully that will not take long.  At some point there needs to be a judgment against those who failed to remove this guy from the army before he went on a mass murder for Allah murder spree.  A combination of political correctness and incompetence kept this guy in the army and kept him getting promotions.  That incompetence has also continued after he went on the spree with the ridiculous assertion that it was "workplace violence."  This guy should have been tried at Gitmo as a domestic terrorist.