Called “Operation Resolute Justice,” the plan directs the Army to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transport inmates from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, in Indiana. The plan also calls for the establishment of a viewing station for witnesses. An Army official confirmed details of the plan with Task & Purpose.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ, the president has to sign off on an execution order.
…….There are currently four former Soldiers on the military’s death row who are housed at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which is managed by the Army. The former soldiers, Timothy Hennis, Nidal Hasan, Ronald Gray and Hasan Akbar, were all found guilty of murder, some in mass scenes of violence, others in more personal crimes.
……..In 2009, Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, entered a Fort Hood, Texas, medical facility and shouted “Allahu akbar” — “God is great,” in Arabic — before shooting and killing 13 people, and wounding dozens more. Hasan was paralyzed after he was shot by police who responded to the attack. At trial, Hasan, an American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, admitted to being the shooter. He described himself at trial as a Soldier who was on the “wrong side of America’s war on Islam” and that he had “switched sides.” In 2013, he told a panel of military mental health experts that the death penalty offered him salvation and that he “would still be a martyr.”
The oldest military death row case involves former Army Spc. Ronald Gray, which dates back decades. In 1988, Gray was convicted by a general court-martial of 14 charges, including premeditated murder, attempted murder, and of raping three women, two of whom were Soldiers. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed off on his execution order, but it was later challenged in federal court and in 2016 a judge lifted the hold on his execution order. In 2017, an Army court rejected his final appeal.
Another one of the death row inmates is Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who was convicted of attempted and actual premeditated murder in a 2003 hand grenade and shooting attack at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait. Akbar was charged with killing an Army captain, an Air Force major, and wounding 14 others. In May, Defense Secretary Hegseth awarded Purple Hearts to 9 veterans injured in that attack.
Former Master Sgt. Timothy Hennis was convicted in a North Carolina court in 1985 for a triple murder involving a woman and two children while he was a Soldier at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The state supreme court overturned his conviction, arguing that the repeated projected pictures during the trial could have unfairly swayed the jury. He was acquitted in 1989. Hennis reenlisted and served until 2004, when he retired as a master sergeant. Preserved DNA evidence was used as proof against him in a set of UCMJ charges and he was tried again for those murders. In 2010, a military court-martial sentenced him to death. A petition for a retrial at the Supreme Court was denied in 2021.
I was in the 101st Airborne Division when Asan Akbar used grenades and his M4 to kill CPT. Christopher Scott Seifert, an S2 Officer in one of our brigades, and wound 15 others. Akbar should be glad none of us were able to get our hands on him. He wouldn’t have made it to trial.
Nidal Hasan’s bloody attack would have been prevented if the United States Army didn’t create an environment of fear-based political correctness. The motherfucker spewed Islamic rhetoric during briefings, signed his emails with “Praise Be to Allah,” and told a female supervisor she was an infidel who would be “ripped to shreds” and “burn in hell” because she was not muslim.
After his rampage, the Army went looking for scapegoats and reprimanded 9 officers for “leadership failures” and “found that Hasan’s supervisors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he worked expressed serious concerns about his questionable behavior and poor judgment but failed to heed their own warnings.”
But, no one took it up through the chain of command because God forbid that they violate some EO reg and “offend” someone.
All four of the shitbags should have been executed years ago.