Kokonut Pundit: Akbar Sentenced To Death

An Army sargent affirmed the sentencing of Sgt. Akbar to be executed. He would be the first one to be executed since 1996

The commander of Fort Bragg on Friday affirmed the sentence of an Army sergeant condemned to die for killing two officers and wounding 14 others during a 2003 grenade and rifle attack in Kuwait.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar was convicted April 21, 2005, of killing Army Capt. Chris Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone and wounding 14 others during a March 23, 2003, attack on officers’ tents at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

Seifert, 27, and Stone, 40, were part of the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, which was preparing to move into Iraq to join the war. Akbar was sentenced to die April 28, 2005.

With the sentencing comes with the automatic appeal as explained in the Army Times. Though Akbar's lawyer say he was insane at the time.

Oh, really? Now, I am betting that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in U.S. Congress, will somehow get involved in this. But Beck may have put a damper over Keith Ellison when he asked him in a television interview "Prove to me that you are not working with our enemies".

ELLISON: Let me tell you, the people in the Fifth Congressional District know that I have a deep love and affection for my country. There's no one who's more patriotic than I am, and so you know, I don't need to -- need to prove my patriotic stripes.

BECK: OK. Your view of Muslim extremists.

ELLISON: They're criminals. But I think that people who commit criminal acts should be treated like criminals, regardless of their faith.

We'll see. He still has connection to CAIR. He is against capital punishment.

The death penalty is reserved for certain people, and that is why it is hard to tinker with this instrumentality of death. Unless we have the perfect racial and economic capital punishment system, there are always going to be vulnerable people. Thus, we should not be killing people.

Reserved for certain people? And what would that be? Infidels?

Major Gregory Stone was my cousin.

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