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HeyBub wrote:

Good chance he'll end up being dead anyway. Certainly if
he's imprisoned instead of executed, he'll have to be segregated. I'm
sure other convicts would be lining up to break his neck and not give
it a second thought.


He will be executed. A 2006 study found that of 21,000 courts
martial, only six defendants successfully used the insanity defense.
UCMJ provides for deciding insanity before trial. Specifically a 706
Panel will be asked to answer four questions:


Even IF the military courts find him insane or sentence him to something
less than the death penalty, don't forget this business happened in the
state of Texas. If the sentence doesn't go appropriately, the state will
take a crack at the terrorist.

Texas, unlike the federal system, DOES actually execute those so sentenced.