With the mandatory appeals that it has to go through, Obama will not be in the White House when this comes across the desk of the Oval Office
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With his signature from the Oval Office, Bush said yes to the military's request to execute Ronald A. Gray, said the officials, who revealed his decision only on grounds of anonymity. Gray had been convicted in connection with a spree of four murders and eight rapes in the Fayetteville, N.C., area over eight months in the late 1980s while stationed at Fort Bragg.
Unlike in the civilian courts, a member of the U.S. armed forces cannot be executed until the president approves the death sentence. Gray has been on death row at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., since April 1988.
Bush's decision, however, is not likely the end of Gray's legal battle. Further litigation is expected and these types of death sentence appeals often take years to resolve.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-4301402.html
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/02/10/1156372?sac=fo.local
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You give him death, and death only..
Being afraid to give him death is just plain cowardly..
The military is not much interested in warehousing bodies. Bodies are of little use to them unless they can be used for military purposes. If not, they kick you out. If they can't get rid of you that way, watch out!
Can Hasan request for no appeal? I doubt if he will change his mind.
You sound like a fan of gitmo...or an authoritarian. Make 'em pay it makes me feel good.
I saw a sound bite of the trial. Some of the shooting victims were on the stand addressing Nidal, about how the shooting has had an negative impact on their lives.
Do these victims think he cares, or has remorse for them?
It's a Capitol Punishment Case. Appeals are automatic and he can't stop the appeal process.
I would change this when a person admits guilt, and says give me the death penalty.
Hasan is on board with the ruling.
Not to quote the complete scene from Pulp Fiction, but basically to go to work on Hasan with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. And maybe quote a few passages from the Bible similar to Samuel Jackson right before you go all medieval (Crusader) on him.
Maybe I should tone it down a bit, it does sounds a bit too Christian (lmao)
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Almost every time I went in there to go take a shower, Pulp Fiction was playing on the TV. I was a young and impressionable teenager and that movie has irrevocably enmeshed itself into my psyche. To stay on topic, I am categorically opposed to a state sanctioned death penalty, as well as our current prison industrial complex. It is through these means and methods that we often become the very evil that we allege to be fighting against. And all that jazz.
I'm not an advocate for the death penalty or any form of punishment, but how else are rules supposed to be enforced with out some form of consequence?
I am quickly becoming a detractor to the concept of justice.
I would go "Medieval" on him but he wouldn't feel it. He was paralyzed from the waist down when shot during his rampage.
Here's the evidence.