He deserves the penalty, however I have a question about the timing.
There are FOUR men on U.S. military death row:
Ronald Gray — sentenced in 1988
Hasan Akbar — 2005
Timothy Hennis — 2010
Nidal Hasan — 2013
Hasan is the NEWEST death sentence of the four, yet he has now been specifically selected to become the first person executed by the U.S. military since 1961.
Why him first?
Hasan is Muslim. So is Akbar. And this is happening during a political climate where Islam, “jihadists,” and Muslims are increasingly part of the political conversation.