John Galligan

And it, it, it's terrible because a lot of, a lot of things, uh, should be revealed.

And, you know, uh, I, I don't know what's gonna happen with, uh, Nidal, and I'm, I'm confident and I'm very, I was very impressed with the lawyering of John Galligan, who's no longer his civil lawyer.

Who's John Galligan? Who's John Galligan?

He's, he's the, a, a, a wonderful Texas lawyer, uh, who has been representing him throughout the military tribunal process.

And, uh, I don't think he has that job anymore.

Yet he leaked documents during his trial to journalists that revealed him telling military mental health workers that he could s- still be a martyr if executed.

Attorney John Galligan, a former military judge who had represented Hasan in several civil matters following his criminal trial, spoke with Hasan on Wednesday, but is barred from offering much detail about that conversation.

He is not representing Hasan in his criminal case but said he's worried about th- his physical health under the plan laid out by officials, and that Hasan has not yet had access to legal counsel.

He knows they're gonna shoot him, right?

I don't know.

Hmm.

Attorney John Galligan, a former military judge who had represented Hasan in s- uh, oh, we just read this part.

Let me skip forward.

Um, and I would remind your listeners that it took years for these service members to finally be awarded the Purple Heart, because it involved a recognition and acknowledgement of domestic terrorism, and that this attack at their deployment site at Fort Hood had turned that military base into a battlefield, a war zone inside the United States.

Um, on, on the execution of, uh, Nidal Hasan, I spoke with his longtime attorney this week, John Galligan, and regardless of your thoughts about Hasan and the method of execution, I hope we can all agree that the process should be followed.

And his, his lawyer argued that the Army had violated the regulations about notification.

And I've read the regulations, and they state that once a decision is made by the president to go forward with an execution, that the prisoner should be notified in the presence of a chaplain or religious counselor and then a member of their legal team or, uh, sort of what, what I would call the military equivalent of, uh, a court-appointed attorney, and, um, if reasonably possible, and that was not the case here.

This is the kind of thing that a lot of people are gonna say, and certainly the Associated Press, which is a very, very left-wing wire service, they're gonna b- bring in experts.

Let's see, who all did they bring in? There's one, two, three, four, at least five of them that in their story, "Oh, you know, this is terrible." You know, they also, they also talked to John Galligan.

Now, John Galligan is a longtime friend of mine.

I've known him, like, two decades, I guess.

Galligan and I sat together on an airplane one time [laughs], separated by the center aisle, and, uh, we talked about this for about twenty minutes before the flight attendant came and shushed us.

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Death row inmate Krista Pike awake and speaking after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week as her attorneys begin what they say could become a much larger legal fight over the failed execution.

Pike regaining consciousness Tuesday, nearly a week after Tennessee executioners administered two doses of pentobarbital in an unsuccessful attempt to put her to death on September 30th.

Pike sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old classmate Colleen Slemmer and had been set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

Her attorneys appearing in Nashville court yesterday asking Chancellor Aisha Miles to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve evidence from the execution attempt while they determine what legal action comes next.

The state arguing a preservation order was unnecessary.

Assistant Attorney General John Ayers saying the Department of Correction had already collected and logged evidence from the death chamber.

Ayers saying he could not, noting any new execution order would ultimately come from the Tennessee Supreme Court.