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The United States army |
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has formally charged the military officer |
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accused of carrying out last week's mass shooting |
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at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. |
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The officer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, |
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an army psychiatrist, |
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has been under armed guard in a hospital |
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since being wounded in the shooting. |
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Mathew Prize reports from New York. |
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There are still many questions |
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surrounding the mass shooting |
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at the America's largest military base, |
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but one of them has now been answered. |
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Major Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist |
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who was due to be deployed to Afghanistan, |
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has been charged with 13 counts of murder. |
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That could rise |
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if prosecutors decide also to charge him |
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with the murder of an unborn child |
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being carried by one of his victims. |
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He will be prosecuted in a military court. |
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If convicted, he could face the death penalty, |
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although no one has actually been executed |
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under the US military justice system for almost 50 years. |