Why did it take the jury two hours (ꦦ“Of Martyrs and Maj. Hasan,” Editorial, Aug. 29)?
Hopefully, the Army doesn’t take that long to strip him of the pay he is still receiving and whatever other military benefits▨ we don’t know about yet but are still paying for.
And the media should stop honoring him with 💯the designꦗation of Major. No terrorist should ever be accorded that title.
Bill Viggiano
Williston Park
The good news is ♑that the Fort Hood murderer was given the dea🐠th penalty.
The bad news is that there could be many appeals.
Carol Hollenbeck
Manhattan
Now that the Fort Hood mass murderer has been appropriately sentenced to death after a ridiculouꦅs trial, which served only to subject survivors of the attack to fresh pain, Americans should ask every day why this creature is still breathing the same air as civilized human beings.
There is no doubt as to his guilt; he proudly admitted it from the start. The motive for his savagery is known, as if it makes a difference: He “switched sides” and engaged in his⛎ version of jihad.
It is reasonable to expect that ꦬyears or decades will pass before the sentence is carried out, and it is possible that appeal after appeal will cause it never to be imposed, or that it ultimately will be overturned, due to “military procedure.”
Throughout this charade, the American taxpayer will pay for w🎃hatever defense the beast chooses to employ in pursuing appeals, and to house him and provide him with health care.
Who benefits from 🐼this process of fuওtility and stupidity? Certainly not the victims and their families.
We live in a nation in which every courtesy and accommodation is afforded th✅e perpe🐬trator of atrocities and to hell with the victims.
How did we reach💯 this point and what can🧔 our leaders do to change it?
Oren Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair, Pa.