Like there was any other option… He’s getting off easy in my opinion.

Well, unless you’re his attorney:
Defense attorney Maj. David Coombs told jurors that a sentence of life without parole would allow Akbar to be treated for mental illness and possibly rehabilitated.

He’s right, there is a good treatment program available for him which is surprisingly cost effective and has a 100% success rate, it’s called death by lethal injection. Let’s stop wasting time and let the healing begin!

From Fox News:

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military jury sentenced a soldier to death Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

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