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August 29, 2013

Hasan Sentenced to Death for Fort Hood Shooting Rampage 
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Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan has been sentenced to death
for killing 13 people, mostly soldiers, and wounding 30 others during a
2009 rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan has said he acted to avenge U.S.
attacks on Muslim countries. He committed the rampage just weeks before
he was set for deployment to Afghanistan. Hasan becomes the sixth
servicemember on the military's death row. It could be decades before he
is put to death.

 

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