Nidal Hasans Attorney Cries ‘Political Theater’

The attorney for condemned assassin Nidal M. Hasan, and a lot of his fellow vacationers, are almost stroking out over the likelihood that the U.S. authorities may finally execute Hasan, even though he killed 13 troopers and civilians and wounded 31 more at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas, as they carried out pre- or post-deployment processing. 

“For the life of me, I don’t know what they are trying to accomplish in such a rush fashion … and by trying to conduct this execution at Fort Hood, when he has such medical issues,” said Hasan’s attorney John Galligan, a retired colonel and a former army choose. He also raised questions about how Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down and makes use of a wheelchair, can be transported to Fort Hood because apparently no one in a wheelchair has ever moved by motor vehicle or plane.

According to exclusive reporting by Catherine Herridge, Mr. Galligan is very sad.

EXCLUSIVE: MAJOR HASAN CIVILIAN LAWYER REACTS

John Galligan, who among others has been the civilian attorney for Major Nidal Hasan since 2009, addressed his issues about the notification course of:

– Galligan said he was “surprised the Army would proceed with such dispatch to execute Hasan” given the failed execution of Christa Pike

– Galligan said he believes the notification to Hasan of the President’s resolution to authorize execution apparently violated Army rules

– Galligan says Hasan had no civilian, prison or Trial Defense Service (TDS) lawyer current, as required by the Army rules, for the notification course of

AR 190-55 U.S. ARMY CORRECTIONS SYSTEM: PROCEDURES FOR MILITARY EXECUTIONS

Subsection 2-1 g. When the CMDT, USDB initially notifies the prisoner of the presidential resolution to execute the prisoner’s death sentence, the CMDT will probably be accompanied by a chaplain, a Trial Defense Service (TDS) attorney or the prisoner’s civilian counsel (if fairly out there).

– Galligan says Hasan was notified at roughly 7pm the execution had been accredited

– Galligan says he personally informed Hasan of the December execution date and location (Fort Hood) as properly as the way of execution by firing squad

– Galligan questions why the Army would transport Hasan, who is in a wheelchair and paralyzed from waist down, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Hood for the execution

– Hasan has been on death row at Fort Leavenworth for more than a decade

– Galligan described “the transfer for execution as political theatre” and a “rush to execute Hasan” who he says has extreme medical points.

– Galligan also questions why President Biden gave numerous pardons, including a preemptive pardon for Dr. Fauci, but apparently didn’t think about army personnel on death row including his consumer

– Galligan speculated that the alleged violation of Army rules was unlikely to delay the execution, but said the method was “off to a very bad start”

– Galligan added that they’re trying to get Army legal help to finalize legal points, including a will and disposition of stays, prior to execution

– I’ve requested DoW for a response to the claims and will keep you up to date

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 7, 2026

I’m sure that even a lawyer handling a traitorous scumbag like Hasan hates to lose a case, but in the method, beclowning your self does not help anybody.

If Tennessee had used a firing squad instead of an “all female” execution staff and a haphazard technique, Crista Pike wouldn’t be right here; see Tennessee’s Death Penalty Team Under Scrutiny After Christa Pike’s Botched Execution – RedState. I do not know what the protocol will probably be for killing Hasan, but if Secretary of War Pete Hegseth went to the difficulty of ordering transport to Fort Hood to face a firing squad, I’d be shocked if he did not face an precise firing squad. See Firing Squad, It Is: Trump Approves the Execution for An Enemy of the United States – RedState.

The complete issue of a regulation being violated is the worst type of sophistry normally practiced by down-on-their-luck legal professionals hustling drunks and hobos in night time court.

The regulation says, “When the CMDT, USDB initially notifies the prisoner of the presidential decision to execute the prisoner’s death sentence, the CMDT will be accompanied by a chaplain, a Trial Defense Service (TDS) attorney or the prisoner’s civilian counsel (if reasonably available).” Read that rigorously. It applies to the commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks notifying Hasan. It doesn’t apply to the president, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Army, or your Uncle Bob speaking about it on social media. It does not apply to the first time Hasan hears about it. It just does not. The regulation requires the USDB commandant to deal with the official notification.

His grievance about having to notify Hasan of the date and technique of execution is weaselly in the acute. The regulation does not specify how that data must be transmitted to the condemned. The regulation only covers notifying him that the president has determined it’s check-out time. The assumption is that he will probably be told at some level. See We Now Know When and Where Nidal Hasan Will Be Executed — and There’s a Certain Poetic Justice to It – RedState.

For those who are curious, right here is the regulation.

The Army does not have to justify the time, method, or place of the execution to anybody. In World War II, to stop an epidemic of rape by U.S. troops in liberated France, we really hanged prisoners in public in the cities where the offenses occurred. If this execution is to have any larger which means than merely ridding the earth of a vicious assassin, then Fort Hood is a logical location. In an superb world, we would promote tickets, public sale the rights to be on the firing squad, and make it a pay-per-view offering.

Without doubt, the most amusing argument is “why did not Joe Biden pardon Hasan? Perhaps Biden thinks as little of Hasan as the remainder of the nation. Maybe he was just demented and forgetful. Who cares? See Joe Biden’s Autopen Left Four Men on the Military’s Death Row, It’s Time for Trump to Take Action – RedState,

The regulation is fairly clear that disposition of Hasan’s property and his fats, bullet-riddled corpse is a him downside, not a us downside. He will not be entitled to army legal help for either.

The one factor that Galligan is one hundred pc right about is that nothing on his foolish record of complaints issues. 

Other objections have risen from other quarters.

The procedures for execution in Army rules don’t include particular protocols for specific strategies of execution. Experts said in earlier iterations of the firing squad — almost 80 years in the past — one shooter can be given a clean so they all may plausibly imagine they’d not fired the deadly shot.

Perhaps if your IQ was around 75 and you’d never fired a rifle before, that may make sense. If you might have, it does not. A clean does not recoil. A clean does not eject a shell casing. Besides, do you assume anybody profitable the lotto and getting to kill Hasan would need to be recognized without end as the man with the clean on that firing squad?

South Carolina spent about $54,000 to renovate its death chamber for the firing squad.

Tell me you have never been to Fort Hood without telling me you have never been to Fort Hood. Do you might have any thought how a lot empty real estate is there? And how many rifle ranges? Or, if the event takes place indoors, how many people can be found to fill sandbags? You can relaxation assured, not a penny will probably be spent on this project, because it might let Hasan have one thing like a win.

“What happens now, is if Dr. Hasan decides he wants to resist execution, he can go to federal civilian court for a Habeas Corpus petition … and that can last years,” said Eugene R. Fidell, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School specializing in army law.

“It frankly might outlast the current administration, and who knows if the next one will have the same penchant for executions,” he added.

For those not acquainted with the identify, Eugene Fidell has been around principally as long as Keith Richards. He has carried on a one-man jihad against the army justice system as it’s utilized to criminals in the ranks. Here’s the state of play: the army equal of the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against Hasan. No other appeal stays besides to President Trump. He can, apparently, file a habeas corpus petition in federal district court. I do not know how that may very well be thought of “timely,” as he has been on death row for a decade and his remaining appeal was refused in 2023. Nevertheless, he may attempt. The kicker is that habeas appeals from the USDB must be filed in the District of Kansas. Literally every lively choose in that district has been appointed by President Trump. I’m not a lawyer, but I feel that is a clue that any appeal from Hasan will probably be settled reasonably rapidly.

I’m sure there will probably be many twists and turns before Hasan takes his journey to hell. But if the best they’ve is “we don’t like what you’re doing” and submitting a frivolous petition with a Trump-appointed choose, I feel the percentages of this occurring look fairly darn good.

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