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Thread ID: 18018 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-04-29
2005-04-29 04:32 | User Profile
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US Soldier Sentenced to Death for Killing Two US Officers in Kuwait By VOA News 29 April 2005
A U.S. military court has sentenced an Army sergeant to death for murdering two of his comrades and wounding 14 others in a grenade and rifle attack two years ago in Kuwait.
The 15-member military jury in Fort Bragg, in the U.S. state of North Carolina ruled Thursday Sergeant Hasan Akbar, a member of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, should be executed for ambushing the troops as they slept in tents at the start of the Iraq war.
His death sentence will be automatically appealed.
If Akbar is put to death, it would be by lethal injection.
His military lawyers claimed that constant ridicule over his being a black Muslim caused him to snap, triggering the attack
2005-04-29 07:46 | User Profile
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The core of the homily was a challenge to America to heed this mercy and thus become unconditionally pro-life in every situation: abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, racism, poverty, even capital punishment. "I renew the appeal I made most recently at Christmas for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary," he said. "Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform."
The crowd applauded at this point, as they had at some of the other principal points in his homily. Yet the overwhelming majority of Americans, including Catholics, tell pollsters they support the death penalty.
(Later, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, met privately with Missouri Governor Carnahan, asking him to commute the death sentence of convicted murderer Darrell Mease. But it was later in the day when the governor was finally persuaded by the Holy Father himself. Passing through a receiving line, the pope drew the governor close and said to him, "Have mercy on Mr. Mease." The governor did so the next day, changing Mease's sentence to life without parole. His spokesman had said that the encounter really moved the governor. Governor Carnahan told reporters he commuted the sentence in honor of the pope's historic visit, but he said he still supports the death penalty.) [left][/QUOTE][/left]
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2005-04-29 07:59 | User Profile
The disgusting Muslim beast should have been shot in the desert where he committed his atrocity against US troops. He should face a firing squad, but whatever it takes to put him down ASAP is alright.
2005-04-29 08:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Snouter]The disgusting Muslim beast should have been shot in the desert where he committed his atrocity against US troops. He should face a firing squad, but whatever it takes to put him down ASAP is alright.[/QUOTE]In prior conflicts i.e. jewWarII, or the Korean police action, he would have either been shot on sight or faced a firing squad.:saddam: