Good News: Hasan Paralyzed From Chest Down; Bad News: He's Still Alive

I really, really hope he's experiencing agonizing pain.

Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood gunman recuperating from the gunshot wounds that ended the murderous rampage, is expected to be permanently paralyzed from the chest down, his lawyer said.

Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in the Nov. 5 massacre, "has no sensation from the nipple area down," Hasan's civilian attorney, John P. Galligan, told the Washington Post.

Galligan said Hasan has been told the paralysis is permanent.

The attorney participated Saturday in an hour-long, closed-door hearing in an intensive care room at Brooke Army Medical Center, where a magistrate ruled that the Hasan will be held until he can be transferred to jail.

Oh sure, that'll work. Now he'll need round-the-clock care courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers. Of course if he gets the death penalty you can be sure to hear some libs whining how barbaric we are for executing the handicapped.