President Trump makes way for the execution of Ft. Hood shooter via Army firing squad

Nearly seventeen years after the massacre at Fort Hood, the institutional hesitancy that long shielded a self-proclaimed jihadist from final reckoning has broken. 

On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that the administration has authorized the sentence handed down by a court-martial over a decade ago. "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended and President Donald J. Trump has approved death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Parnell stated. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' during the attack." That's the jihadist's claim that Allah is greater [than our God].

The atrocity itself remains one of the most chilling acts of ideological violence on American soil. 

On November 5, 2009, Hasan, then a U.S. Army officer, attended noon prayers at a local mosque before driving to a soldier readiness processing facility. Knowing the building would be filled with unarmed servicemen and women preparing for deployment, he opened fire into what he calculated to be "the greatest density of soldiers." His intention was neither ambiguous nor impulsive. 

As the scumbag later remarked to a sanity board evaluation, "I shot to kill." He was proud doing Allah's work since Allah ain't got no guns.

When law enforcement officers finally incapacitated him after an exchange of gunfire, Hasan was hospitalized and subsequently evaluated, evidently by psychiatrists unfamiliar with the Koran. 

The psychiatric assessment revealed no evidence of depression, psychosis, or cognitive impairment; his actions were guided entirely by deliberate conviction. 

During his trial, the prosecution laid bare the stark human cost of that zealotry. Lead prosecutor Col. Michael Mulligan concluded the government's case following profound testimony from victims' families, including Joleen Cahill, whose husband, retired Chief Warrant Officer Michael Cahill, lost his life attempting to disarm the gunman. She recounted the agonizing aftermath endured by her family in the years following the attack.

Despite his conviction and capital sentence, the military justice system imposed an exhaustive sequence of automatic reviews. The case proceeded through the U.S. Army Criminal Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. When Hasan's legal team ultimately petitioned the Supreme Court citing procedural objections, the nation's highest court declined to hear the appeal, exhausting his legal remedies.

If hopefully carried out, Hasan's execution will mark the first time since 1961 that a U.S. president has successfully authorized a military death penalty, the most severe penalty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The last military execution occurred on April 13, 1961, when Pvt. John Bennett was hanged for the attempted murder of an eleven-year-old girl in Austria. 

A subsequent effort by President George W. Bush to approve a military execution was halted by federal courts in 2008.

With the legal appeals concluded, the authority to determine the exact time and location of the firing squad now rests with the Army secretary. As Parnell noted in his announcement, "Judgment day for Hasan has finally come."

May all his virgins be syphilitic goats.

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