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Fort Hood shooter chooses not to make closing argument
Source: Reuters
Fort Hood shooter chooses not to make closing argument
FORT HOOD, Texas | Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:28pm EDT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Army psychiatrist who has admitted killing 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 31 others in a 2009 shooting spree declined to make a closing argument in his court-martial on Thursday.
Major Nidal Hasan is acting as his own attorney and could face the death penalty if all 13 officers on the jury find him guilty of premeditated murder for the attack at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan rested his defense case on Wednesday without calling any witnesses.
(Reporting by Jana J. Pruet; Editing by Daniel Trotta)
FORT HOOD, Texas | Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:28pm EDT
(Reuters) - The U.S. Army psychiatrist who has admitted killing 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 31 others in a 2009 shooting spree declined to make a closing argument in his court-martial on Thursday.
Major Nidal Hasan is acting as his own attorney and could face the death penalty if all 13 officers on the jury find him guilty of premeditated murder for the attack at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan rested his defense case on Wednesday without calling any witnesses.
(Reporting by Jana J. Pruet; Editing by Daniel Trotta)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/us-usa-crime-forthood-idUSBRE97L0NM20130822
