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Another good reason to celebrate. Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar has been sentenced to death. As Michelle Malkin said “justice is served”

After seven hours of deliberation, a military panel sentenced Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar to death Thursday evening.

Moments after the verdict, Akbar, who did now show much emotion as the verdict was read, emerged from the court building in shackles and surrounded by military police officers.

He will be taken to military death row in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

On Thursday morning, Akbar made a statement in court, apologizing for a fatal grenade attack on his comrades. “I apologize for my actions,” he said. “When I did that I felt my life was in jeopardy and I had other problems.”

Akbar was found guilty by a unanimous vote of two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted premeditated murder by general court-martial April 21.

Akbar was convicted of the March 23, 2003 grenade attack on three tents in Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait that took the lives of Cpt. Christopher Seifert and Maj. Gregory Stone and wounded 14 others from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, KY.