New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill wants Americans to focus on the wheelchair occupied by convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan.
She had much less to say about why Hasan is in that chair — or about the 13 innocent people he murdered and the 32 others he tried to kill.
During an appearance on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Sherrill attacked the firing-squad execution scheduled for Hasan and framed the convicted killer as a burden that young soldiers would be forced to carry for the rest of their lives.
The governor’s own words tell the story:
Sherrill said the thought “just keeps breaking my heart” and asked viewers to imagine an 18- or 20-year-old service member receiving orders to shoot “this guy who’s in a wheelchair.”
That is quite a way to describe a man who opened fire inside the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009.
The U.S. Army says Hasan was found guilty of all 42 counts against him in 2013, including 13 specifications of premeditated murder and 32 specifications of attempted premeditated murder. The Supreme Court denied review of his conviction in March 2025, completing the appellate path that preceded President Trump’s approval of the death sentence.
Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle then directed that Hasan be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. Central on Dec. 3.
The same-day backlash focused on how completely Sherrill’s language displaced the people Hasan murdered:
Mikie Sherrill is DEFENDING the Fort Hood Shooter
“The thing that just keeps breaking my heart: imagine the 20 year old, maybe the 18 year old that stepped up to serve, that gets orders and says, you’re going to go shoot this guy who’s in a wheelchair.”
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Sherrill told viewers that the execution was “not justice” and argued that it would create pageantry around a solemn matter.
Her case did more than oppose a spectacle. She made Hasan’s wheelchair the emotional centerpiece without acknowledging the brutal reason he ended up there.
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The Gateway Pundit notes that Hasan was shot while authorities stopped his attack. He was not an innocent bystander struck by some unrelated tragedy.
His paralysis followed the armed rampage that killed 13 people and wounded scores more. That sequence is indispensable context when an elected governor repeatedly reduces him to “this guy who’s in a wheelchair.”
Sherrill’s concern was ostensibly for the soldiers ordered to serve on the firing squad. Yet her framing asked the audience to picture Hasan’s disability before remembering what he did to the soldiers and civilians trapped inside the readiness center.
The execution was approved only after Hasan’s conviction, death sentence, and appellate review. Nobody is discussing punishment for an allegation or a rushed battlefield judgment; this is the final sentence in a case litigated for years.
President Trump later canceled the plan to livestream the execution to the general public. The firing-squad sentence remains scheduled, and immediate family members of Hasan’s victims will be allowed to witness it in person if they choose.
One Army veteran answered Sherrill’s imagined young soldier with a bluntly different perspective:
That distinction matters. The debate over broadcasting an execution is separate from the lawful sentence imposed after Hasan’s conviction and years of appeals.
Sherrill was free to criticize a public spectacle. Instead, she chose language that invited sympathy for “a guy who’s in a wheelchair” while pushing Hasan’s victims and the horror at Fort Hood to the edge of the frame.
Americans should remember exactly how that wheelchair entered the story — and exactly whose lives were destroyed first.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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