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                     Convicted Fort Hood Shooter Rests Case

   The convicted gunman in the Food Hood, Texas shooting rampage has
   rested his case in the trial`s penalty phase without calling any
   witnesses or giving testimony.
   U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan was found guilty last week of
   killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in a 2009 attack on
   the military base. On Wednesday, the jury of 13 military officers who
   convicted him will begin to decide whether Hasan receives life in
   prison or a rare military death sentence.
   Family members of U.S. soldiers killed in the attack testified at the
   sentencing phase of the trial Monday to explain how their lives have
   been shattered by the incident.
   Survivors of the attack also testified on Monday, including Staff
   Sergeant Patrick Ziegler. He told jurors how he was shot four times and
   underwent emergency surgery that removed about 20 percent of his brain.
   Hasan, who is an American-born Muslim, has admitted to carrying out the
   attack. Hasan said he switched sides on what he considers a U.S. war on
   Islam. He represented himself at his trial and said in his opening
   statement that evidence would "clearly show" he was the shooter.
   His legal advisers at one point in the trial said that Hasan was doing
   so little in the courtroom to contest the charges because they believed
   he wanted to be convicted of premeditated murder so he could receive a
   death sentence.
   No U.S. military prisoner has been executed since 1961.
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