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Fort Hood Death Sentence
Soldier Sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for a 2009 shooting in Fort Hood, Texas. A death sentence for an army personal hardly ever happens. Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical building where army soldiers were getting medical check-ups and shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ which means in Arabic for “God is great!.” He then opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He killed thirteen army men and women that day and injured over 30. When police finally stopped him they had shot him in the back leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He went to court being his own attorney never denying killing his fellow soldiers and he opened his hearing with
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