Perhaps no death penalty for Nidal Hasan

[Platapus]

The Army is considering a request from the defense not to pursue the death penalty for Nidal Hasan.

At first I was incensed. This seemed like a good case for the death penalty.

Then I thought about it. Life in prison while paralyzed from the chest down also sounds like a good punishment for this combat avoiding cowardly loser.

Spending your life in a cell that you can't get out of, and you can't do much inside the cell either. All you can do is sit there crapping in a baggie for the rest of your life.

Maybe eliminating the death penalty is a good thing in this case?

If I were Hasan, I might push FOR the death penalty.:yep:

[CCIP]

Honestly, the only reason to be against this is the fact he'll be kept on taxpayer money. Which, yes, is a waste. Otherwise, by all means, having to spend his life in isolation and utterly helpless, with no chance of parole (and by god there'd be something wrong with the system if he was ever granted that) - that's as harsh a punishment as the system can give him.

[tater]

Yeah, good point. At first I'd be annoyed at the cost, but it's worth it to make that POS suffer for decades.

[Stealhead]

Living a long time having killed many people and knowing that you are going to die one day and answer for what you have done I like that better than death with death the ----er goes to hell right away with life in prison he spends a long long time thinking about going to hell before he ever gets there.

They say that damn nation is like a little bird picking up a tiny pebble and then flying half way round the would and setting the pebble on the flat ground and then flying all the back to get another pebble the little bird does this over and over and when he sets the last pebble in place he has just completed Mt.Everest.All the time it took him to do this is but a sliver of eternity.Life in prison adds alot more pebbles for that little bird.

P.S. it seems that there much argument as to what costs more life or death? If you look it up on the web you'll find many differing answers and even some groups that have tried to run independent(not pro or anti death) studies say that there is alot of variance with costs for both(appeals and such) and therefore cant say conclusively which one costs more.