Miranda warning:
A Miranda warning is a warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody, or in a custodial situation, before they are interrogated. A custodial situation is one in which the suspect’s freedom of movement is restrained (judged by the “free to leave” test), even if he is not under arrest.
Miranda rights:
An elicited incriminating statement by a suspect will not constitute admissible evidence unless the suspect was informed of his/her “Miranda rights” and made a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of those rights. However, a 2004 Supreme Court ruling upheld state “stop-and-identify” laws, allowing police in those jurisdictions to require biographical information such as name, date of birth, and address, without arresting suspects or providing them Miranda warnings.
With respect to the Fort Hood shooting, I feel that the psycho, who is paralyzed from the waist down, be asked if he wants to plead guilty and the death penalty, a martyr’s dream through lethal injection.
Obviously, if he declared a Jihad and ended up killing 13 people and since he is out of his mind, nutters are not entirely responsible for the criminal behavior and maybe should be locked up forever in jail instead.
As far as national security, he represents yet another pawn for political policies: To find out which military personnel or potential killers are prone to PTSD and other mental illnesses before and after the trigger, which sets them off like this guy.
He and other psychos like him should be rigorously screened prior to signing up with the military. Thorough background check must be implemented, too. People with mental illness should not be handling firearms, period. Others could get hurt.
Since he was still employed as a military personnel, he should to be tried and executed via the military, the pawns of politics and policy-making. Why not go back to the old days of blind-folding and the firing squad; while smoking a cigarette as an option?