Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Military jury to consider death penalty for Fort Hood gunman

ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN BINNED U.S. Army Major Hasan appears before Fort Hood Chief Circuit Judge Colonel Gregory Gross with a military lawyer during an arraignment as seen in this courtroom sketch By Ellen Wulfhorst FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - The military jury deciding the fate of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan was slated on Wednesday to begin deliberations on whether he should be sentenced to death for the November 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. The same jury of 13 officers convicted Hasan of killing 13 people and wounding 31 others, most of them unarmed soldiers, at the central Texas base. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, declined to make any statement nor present any evidence in his defense on Tuesday, ahead of the deliberations. ...








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