Muslim Terrorist to Face Public Execution in USA

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From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.

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An interesting thing. Yesterday... War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Announcing that...

Announcing that Nidal Hasan. Was going to finally. Meet his maker. And then would be dispatched to the Lake of Fire. Nidal Hasan is the Muslim man, the Muslim, who waged jihad on American soil. At Fort Hood, Texas, back in 2009, 17 years ago. And let me just put a pen in that for just a moment and say this. We've got a big problem in this country when it comes time to administering the death penalty. We need to pick up the pace a little bit. 17 years. Krista Pike, by the way, 30 years on death row. And she's still alive. So 17 years, we've been feeding and taking care of the guy's medical issues. He's paralyzed. He's in a wheelchair. He slaughtered 13 brave men and women at Fort Hood. More than 30 others were wounded, many of them seriously. And so anyway, Hegseth comes out and says, All right, this guy, we're finally going to administer justice. He's going to be executed by a firing squad. And I was one of the people that was cheering about this. Hegseth also announced, and this is the part that's causing apparently some controversy among many religious people and also some conservatives. Hegseth said the execution would be live streamed.

A lot of people are upset about this. As a matter of fact, Erick Erickson, who calls himself a conservative talk radio host, compared this all to the pagan Roman empire and suggested the Trump administration relished in the public spectacle of an execution. Erickson then went on to quote Proverbs and said, we should not gloat when our enemy falls. Well, let me just say, I don't believe it is gloating to administer the penalty under the law. As a matter of fact, I would contend, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible in many passages advocates for public executions. The argument among some on the right is that the Muslims in other countries will use this as a motivation tool to get other people to rise up against the American people. That Nidal Hasan, the sight of a man in a wheelchair being executed by firing squad would spur others to attack Americans. And that may be the case. But I contend, as the Bible says, that whoever sheds human blood should also shed their blood. And by the way, the Bible also clearly states that executions were to be public and communal. And why was that? Well, it was very simple, to purge evil from the community, and also to serve as a deterrent, because in many of these gatherings, you'd have the the godless heathen children, you know, the urchins, and they're a mess, but they need to understand at a very young age that if you do something wrong, there is a price to pay.

No, I'm not suggesting that children should see the execution. I'm just saying, no, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that's the way it was in the old days.

Because right now, I truly think that one of the big problems in this country is that the criminal thugs, they're not stupid. They're smart. And they know that if they're going out there committing crimes, there's a pretty good chance they're going to be able to get off. That they're not going to have to do hard time. That if you go out and kill somebody, chances are you're just going to spend the rest of your life in prison.

But you're not going to get executed. So I would suggest that we need this in America, if nothing else, to shock our nation back to a sense of reality, back to a sense of knowing what is right and what is wrong. So anyway, I'm curious to hear from you on this. There are those who say, yes, the guy should be executed. It should be done in private. Others say, no, he should just spend the rest of his life in prison. And then others who say, you know what, let's haul him out. And in this case, roll the guy out, put him in front of the firing squad and be done with it. What was it? Tim Burcheth, the congressman from Tennessee, talking about Krista Pike. And everybody was confused. They didn't know what to do. She was there in the hospital, a life support at the time. You know, my recommendation was just pull the plug. I mean, it's not all that difficult, but they didn't do that. And now she's allegedly up and walking and talking and wanting to know where she is.