At the New Leger, On the Fort Hood Shootings
If ever a man deserved a Pay-Per-View execution, it is the loathsome Nidal Malik Hasan. Unfortunately, as I explain, the military’s capital punishment system is broken, and Nidal Hasan may well end up spending decades on death row with the (also loathsome) Hasan Akbar.
“If religion was Hasan’s motive, his was an extraordinarily promiscuous view of the meaning of one’s oath to God.”
As I would view that of the government of a democratic state (or indeed any state) taking the life of its citizenry, thus absolving itself of any responsibility for rehabilitation whatsoever.
But that is old news, and like a red rag to a bull on both sides of the debate, so let’s not get bogged down just there.