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3/1/2010

Hasan Returning to Fort Hood

Filed under: Terrorism — DRJ @ 6:01 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan is moving from a San Antonio hospital to a Fort Hood-area jail:

“The Army psychiatrist charged in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military base will soon be moved to a county jail near Fort Hood after four months in a military hospital, his attorney and jail officials said Monday.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is paralyzed, is to be transferred to the Bell County Jail and will be housed in a cell in the medical unit, said jail administrator Bob Patterson.

“We’re prepared to handle inmates with medical needs,” Patterson said, declining to elaborate or comment on whether special security measures would be taken.”

Hasan’s attorney wanted him moved to Fort Hood but the Army base does not have jail facilities that can also provide for Hasan’s medical needs.

— DRJ

12 Responses to “Hasan Returning to Fort Hood”

  1. Decubiti, c diff or aspiration pneumonia, you think?

    nk (db4a41)

  2. The report says he is paralyzed from the chest down. I wonder if he might be on a ventilator or need some kind of assistance breathing. I assume he also needs a catheter and has feeding issues.

    DRJ (daa62a)

  3. Hasan’s attorney wanted him moved to Fort Hood but the Army base does not have jail facilities that can also provide for Hasan’s medical needs.

    Sounds like a value add to me. Move him to Hood. I mean, his lawyer requested it, after all.

    Save us the cost of a trial…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  4. Well, at least he’s not going to run away.

    Mike K (2cf494)

  5. Decubiti, c diff or aspiration pneumonia, you think?

    i’m in favor of all 3, but i doubt you’ll see the first, since they are primarily an indicator of poor care, which would be grounds for a claim of “cruel and unusal treatment”….

    personally, i’m rooting for sepsis, or a fungal infection of his lungs leading to it. i’m also fine with DVT, strokes, MCI, embolisms, etc, as long as they are first painful and then fatal.

    if i can only have one of those, i will, of course, take fatal.

    i wonder how many rounds he took to the gut, and what had to be re-sectioned, if anything? regardless, i hope is every moment is one of excruciating pain, and may his death be lingering.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  6. Medical needs? He needs an electric chair–wired to a 220 kilovolt electric line.

    Mike Myers (3c9845)

  7. Interesting point, Mike Myers. Do you think that a military court would sentence him to death though he is paralyzed? I don’t have any sense for how these things go.

    JVW (fd30ab)

  8. I’m reminded of the hangman from Blazing Saddles, he’s experienced in sending people in wheelchairs up a rope, someone ask Mel Brooks if he’s available

    Thatguy (ca9bab)

  9. Take him to Huntsville, ask him what he wants for his last mean (no halal) and wheel him down the hall to meet his 72 virgins.

    end of story

    retire05 (1e885c)

  10. I dunno about decubiti being totally an indicator of poor care. Christopher Reeves died from a decub leading to sepsis.
    I’ve seen plenty of patients who got good care but refused to be moved or turned and thus got nasty ulcers.
    A nice VRE or MRSA infection would be nice.

    CardioNP (d18b93)

  11. by “good care” i meant moving them, etc, to prevent them…. providing care mans doing what needs to be done, which isn’t always what the patient wants.

    VRE or MRSA can both lead to sepsis, as i’m guessing you know….. so they’re pretty much waht i had in mind…. but fungals are nice too. a contaminated TPN would be a great way to start the ball rolling… %-)

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  12. Let’s see now JVW. Do I think a military court would sentence him to death “even though he’s paralyzed”? I don’t know. I’m not an expert in the UCMJ. On the other hand, I don’t think that if you kill 13 people, and are yourself paralyzed as a result of shots fired at you to stop the slaughter, that you thereby should have a “get out of jail card”. I think Major Hasan should be tried, convicted, and executed. He doesn’t really have a “some other dude did it” defense. There may be some “temporary insanity” defense, but his “temporary” lasted long enough to kill 13 people. That’s not “temporary” in my book.

    I’d prefer that he see the inside of a coffin promptly, but I’d settle for four walls from which he never escapes. Sorry to go all Old Testament on you, but there should be a price paid proportionate to the crime.

    Mike Myers (3c9845)


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