This article explains that the US Army plans to seek the death penalty in the case of Major Nidal Hasan. It sounds like the Army never contemplated the decision to seek the death penalty. Nidal shot and killed 13 people at the Fort Hood army base last November. This is just another case in which people can argue if the death penalty is moral. I think that in this case more people may be able to except it. In my opinion this case is so extreme that I dont think I can argue with it. I am not an outright advocate for the death penalty by any means but I think when the crime is of this magnitude, it is hard for me to say i dont think that he deserves it. He obviously does have some issues but at the same time it was totally unexceptible what he did. Those soldiers and people that were killed sacrificed a lot to defend their country and they were killed prematurely by a guy that it seems was having a bad day. Two wrongs never make a right and it is never right to kill another human being but in a way I think that this guy deserves what ever punishment that he is given.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/29/fort.hood.death.penalty/index.html
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