Death sentence for army base gunman

The US Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at a Texas base could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century after a military jury sentenced him to death.

Nidal Hasan’s sentence for the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood was deemed the only punishment the US Army believed fit for an attack on fellow unarmed soldiers - and one that Hasan, 42, also appeared to seek in a self-proclaimed effort to become a martyr.