{"id":56550,"date":"2014-11-19T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56550"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:07:08","slug":"hasan-k-akbar-disputes-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56550","title":{"rendered":"Hasan K. Akbar disputes death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2003, Hasan K. Akbar tossed grenades into a shelter killing Capt. Christopher S. Seifert and Air Force Maj. Gregory L. Stone while his unit was preparing to enter Iraq in the opening days of that war. Two years later he was convicted and sentenced to death. Now, his lawyer is trying to save his worthless life, according to Stars & Stripes<\/a> because the jury was allowed to read his diary without some sort of “context”;<\/p>\n

Attorneys for 43-year-old Hasan K. Akbar argued on Tuesday that the one-time sergeant’s writings, which include details of how he converted to radical Islam, were so inflammatory, that without the proper context, jurors were most likely to focus on the most damaging parts while considering whether to impose a death sentence.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t present the information in any meaningful way,” said Lt. Col. John Potter, a military lawyer arguing the case for Akbar before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dude threw four hand grenades into several tents while his fellow soldiers slept. I don’t know what other kind of “proper context” there could be. I understand that a lawyer’s job to keep their client alive, but this one needs to rot in a hole somewhere. They shouldn’t have brought his diary into it in the first place. It doesn’t matter why he did it, he did it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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