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Hamid Karzai reading this news will be telling himself "Holy ****, he took 16 lives and now he is enjoying free food and lodging for life"
The court wanted that scumbag to have a chance to explain himself, garner sympathy, perhaps use his attorney. And you think that's a bad thing - unbelievable.
I could imagine some foreighn person who doesn't know US prison thinking that it is some sort of good thing for him because they are either unaware of the conditions, or their prisons have more torture. Personally I would be for giving him to the people he wronged to decide punishment especially since he was on their land when he committed the crime. However, life in prison with no chance for parole is torturous. I am not one of those people aho says we should not do it because it is cruel. I am actually all for it. It is still not a pleasant experience, especially for a person who has freedom.
First off, he is not going to camp jail. He will go to a max security place because he has every motive to attempt escape and no real consequences for doing so, plus he is a violent offender. He will be spending his time in the worst of the worst areas. There will be little to no opportunity for him to get out of the facility on any work or furloughs. He might go to a military work facility, I am not sure if the military still does that, but it will not be some pleasant place. Unlike prisoners with a release date or opportunities for parole he will know that he will never ever see freedom again. That is a thought that will torture him every day as he has nothing to distract him from thinking about what his friends and family are doing without him, and every little thing he enjoyed or took for granted when he had freedom. Trust me, until you see the moments of life pass like eons while you wish for anything but what you have, you have no clue what that is like. Visits from friends and family might be momentarily pleasant, but they arwe a huge reminder that life is going on outside and all you can do is wish you were somehow a part of it. A couple of minutes with those people is worth hours of mental torture later. Anything you have in prison can be taken away from you. You will be repeatedly naked and stripped of any privacy or dignity you thought you had. You will have people watching you when you crap, you will have people looking in your asshole because you moved locations, and you will have every part of your body examined and probed just because someone else said so.
Whether or not there is a hell or just nothing after death I say let us take the time to put these criminals through all of this. Nothing is too good for them, and hell will wait.
You feel it is heartbreaking? What about the friends and families of those 16 massacred people who will have to live with their loss? I guess all of that is OK for you because they are not real people in your world. It is unfortunate for his children their father is such a slimy POS. However, they are better off without a person like that in their life, and we are better off with him out of society.
...why are Afghan civilians of less value?
A better explanation is the Military wanted as full a due process proceeding as possible for a renegade Soldier who committed so large a mass shooting while on duty, stateside.
That is harsh but he deserves more than that. He took 16 innocent lives at point blank range. If I can make the decision I will waterboard him once a week for life.
Why? Because a guilty plea was the death penalty without a chance for him to decide to attempt defense. The court did what was right, in the interest of the scumbag.
no where is it written a guilty plea means the death penalty. The last time a US Soldier was sentenced to death was over 50 years ago. Has anyone at Gitmo been sentenced to death?
The court did what was 'right' in the interest of the Military. The pretrial took forever, the Military knew the defendant's state of mind... if the Military REALLY wanted to act in Hasan's best interest a court appointed attorney would have handled the defense, not the Martyr wannabee.
While the court has the power to force a trial, it does not have the power to force someone to use an attorney. The court did everything it could to improve the situation for the scumbag.
Now the facts you avoid inorder to try and claim refusing the guilty plea and going to trial was 'everything' the court could do to improve the situation is severely undercut by the history of military court sentences.
Like I said name the last soldier executed by the military. How many Gitmo terrorists were sentenced to death? Pvt. Manning faced execution for treason, that didn't happen and of the possible 90 years in prison was sentenced to 35 of which he may serve 1/3.
There was no expectation of the death penalty if the Major plead guilty.
Actually the Court can appoint standby lawyers, if it chooses.
Now the facts you avoid inorder to try and claim refusing the guilty plea and going to trial was 'everything' the court could do to improve the situation is severely undercut by the history of military court sentences.
Hasan fired them in May, but the judge made them stay on to offer Hasan technical help with court procedures...
Texas Tech law professor and former Army lawyer Richard Rosen says the defense attorney is in a difficult spot.
"He thinks it's ethically improper for him to serve as a standby counsel for someone who's seeking the death penalty when his role should be to ensure that he does not get the death penalty," Rosen said.
Are you sure you can read? Which bit of, "I think LWP is the correct verdict for both cases," do you struggle to comprehend?
Who gives a xxxt? This is our country, he's one of our guys who lost his mind. We'll set him free if we want.
In other words, your interpretation is severely undercut by preconceived bias. You're comparing prisoners of war and an attention whore that dumped useless information to a mass murderer? haha
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