Fort Hood shooter may never walk again.....aawwww....

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AC4Z820091113

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army psychiatrist charged with 13 counts of murder in the Fort Hood Army base shootings may be permanently paralyzed from the waist down due to the gunshots used to subdue him, his lawyer said on Friday.

John Galligan, a retired Army colonel appointed to represent Major Nidal Malik Hasan during an upcoming military trial, also said Hasan, 39, could face more charges.

The U.S. Army has charged Hasan, a U.S.-born Muslim who is the son of immigrant parents, with premeditated murder in the deaths of 13 people on November 5 at the huge military base in Texas. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Police officers shot Hasan four times during the incident to bring him down, and the wounds appear to have left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down, Galligan said

[provis99]

1. I bet he'll sue for excessive force.

[Philosoraptor]

7. He probably will

[bluestateguy]

2. He'll be getting better health care than many civilians who are paralyzed

and uninsured.

[tblue]

5. And veterans who are uninsured. nt

[SoCalDem]

49. and he'll get all the "medical durable goods" he'll need for life

and whatever assistance he needs. Of course he probably wishes he had died in a blaze of glory, like he intended, but I have no doubt that this will end up being one very expensive prisoner..

I also bet that many of the others injured in the attack, will have life-long disabilities from their injuries, and will get a fraction of the help he will get..and they will have to work like hell to get their necessary care, and probably at great financial costs to them and their families..

Many will probably get cut loose from the military, and then have to fend for themselves in the almighty private sector:(

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. Can they execute a paraplegic?nt

[WI_DEM]

4. why not?

[prolesunited]

11. Think about this

The guy was on a suicide mission. What good does executing him do if he wanted to die anyway?

Wouldn't letting him live as paraplegic in jail for the rest of his life be more of a punishment?

BTW, having the state execute him accomplishes what?

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. Accomplishes making his punk ass dead.

But I'd rather he live forever in a federal prison, in a rusty wheelchair.

[KamaAina]

32. A transfer chair would work nicely

it has four small wheels rather than the two large rear ones paras usually use to push themselves.

That way, Hasan Inmate No. 348562-B would be utterly dependent on the guards -- the MP guards -- to push him anywhere.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Then he's luckier than his victims

[lpbk2713]

8. There's not much walking in an 8 x 8 cell anyway.

And an 8 x 8 cell would have been the best he could have looked forward to.

[qazplm]

18. Its more like

10 by 4, single man cells in Leavenworth, not a lot of room at all. You can't even spread your arms out both ways. Although it's been awhile since I've been on the death row side so those cells may be different.

I'm anti DP but there would be no prohibition against executing him in his alleged condition.

[kctim]

9. They should just Shiavo his ass

[prolesunited]

12. Are you advocating starving a human being to death?

:wtf:

[kctim]

16. I really don't care how

just as long as the end result is the same.

[prolesunited]

19. And we gain what from executing him?

[alfredo]

35. Life without parole is the death penalty: death by incarceration. Insanity comes

before death. It is a brutal way to die,

[Kansas Wyatt]

38. And he'll need someone to bathe him as well, which he will hate.

I don't think he expected to live after his crime, and a life sentence to him will literally be HELL for him. And now, he can't even 'check-out' on his own either.

[alfredo]

43. Such a tragedy all the way around.

[jobycom]

10. Neither will 13 of the people he shot. nt

[Echo In Light]

15. Well, there's that pesky, ever looming Zombie Apocalypse I hear so much about these days

[Common Sense Party]

14. Cry me a river, Nidal...

[lunatica]

17. karma

He'll get to live with a body that's half dead and the memory of why. Seems fitting.

[elocs]

20. Reading some of these posts, is this still DU or did I take a wrong turn?

I wonder if there are some here who think that Hasan should be tortured if he does not confess?

[Gin]

21. would he be in a military brig? I hear thats rough...no sympathy for him

from me....he won't be going to Iraq or Afghanistan...his prayers were answered..

[elocs]

41. Well, I guess I'm not like you. Although I have no sympathy for him

I do not delight in his suffering either. That would make me like him, wouldn't it?

[Orsino]

22. America demands *vengeance*.

DUers are mostly able to confine themselves to a little schadenfreude.

[depakid]

27. Often I'd agree -but in this case, the guy tried to go out with guns a blazing

and found that there are worse things than death.

In some respects, his actions do serve as an example- something the court martial might consider.

[malaise]

30. +1

I can't believe what I read here these days

[elocs]

42. As DUers join hands with freepers and sing Kumbaya. n/t

[JI7]

31. one can be opposed to torture and still not feel sympathy for the person

i don't think any of us think he should be tortured. but we aren't going to be feeling bad for him when things happen to him of his own fault.

[elocs]

39. Not taking joy in one's suffering is not the same as having sympathy for them.

Unfortunately some do not perceive the difference.

[JI7]

40. it is understandable right now and after what he did

[sabrina 1]

36. Was just thinking the same thing.

How easy it is to get people to become what they claim to despise. Revenge. A family member of one of the victims of John Mohammed was asked if he had forgiven the killer last week. He said he had, because not to do so would rot his own soul.

I hope never to harbor the same hatred and need for revenge that drives any of these killers to do the awful things they do. Giving them that kind of power is a win for them. I'd like to think I share nothing with them.

[eShirl]

48. Well, this IS America, after all.

It's not like we're as civilized a country as we used to think we were.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Tough shit....ask the families of the victims if they give a fuck....

[leeroysphitz]

24. "aawww"? I'll bet if the shooter had been a Caucasian, blond female you would, right now, be

clamoring to know why she wasn't receiving proper physical and psychiatric treatment.

[arcadian]

29. agreed

[LoZoccolo]

47. Lame. n/t

[Philosoraptor]

50. You lose that bet.

[HughMoran]

25. Executed in a wheelchair?

That should prove to be interesting.

[TicketyBoo]

26. No problem, there.

In 2006, the military procedure for execution was changed to lethal injection.

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/r190_55.pdf

[ShortnFiery]

28. Sorry, but I just can't "get off" on such ghoulish conjecture.

If we become BASE, then we are morphing into evil ourselves.

May he spend the rest of his long, miserable life in solitary confinement.

If you want to make a KILLER a martyr then just go ahead and cheer while The State Executes him.

It won't be long thereafter that they may be coming to take "devout Muslims" into detention camps. Will you speak up? Or will you also cheer?

[Texasgal]

34. sorry, but this a pet peeve of mine

NO state will execute him... this is strictly a military issue. *sigh*

[TicketyBoo]

44. I wasn't

"getting off" on it. Just stating the facts.

[-..__...]

51. And here's the man to do it...

[HughMoran]

52. lol

Looks like a job for "Kalishnakitty!" :)

[Arkana]

33. I hope the courts aren't stupid enough to sentence him to death.

That's kinda what he was after in the first place--and if they kill him they'll grant his wish.

[proteus_lives]

37. Too bad, so sad.

They'll have to build a ramp in the execution chamber.

[cherokeeprogressive]

45. Oopsie!

I said about John Muhammed that I'd not worry about his execution for a second because of the lack of value he placed on the lives of those whose killings he choreographed.

I'll say the same about Hasan. If he never drew another breath, I'd care not. I don't care about how he's treated, or who treats him.

I would have preferred that his life came to an end on November 5th because of acute lead poisoning. The kind that happens when a small piece of lead expelled from the barrel of a gun penetrates the cranium.

Now that that's water under the bridge, I hope he spends whatever life he has left pissing on himself due to lack of bladder control. I hope he's forced to sit in his own shit while facing away from Mecca during each of his five daily prayers. I hope that he gets placed in a room with his forearms strapped to his chair while 100 non-aggressive yet LOVING dogs lick his face until dog saliva literally drips off of it. I hope that the only protein he ever ingests for the rest of his life comes from swine.

I don't really hope for those things. Honest.

But I do wish he would have died from the aforementioned lead poisoning.

[smalll]

46. Allahu Akbar!

:hide: /nt

[Subdivisions]

53. Yea, and the first few hours he was dead. Repairing paralysis should be a cinch for him. n/t

[undeterred]

54. I don't celebrate paralysis.

Unless its Limbaugh's mouth.