The man who perpetrated the worse mass murder in the history of U.S. military installations, Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced to death by a panel of thirteen senior military officers today after just over two hours of deliberation.

The almost 43 Hasan, dressed in Army fatigues, said nothing as his sentence was handed down for the killing of 13 people and the wounding of another 32 in 2009. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, gunned down his victims at the Army’s Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center in central Texas just weeks before he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan.

Yelling out “Allahu akbar!” Hasan opened up on unarmed soldiers with a laser-sight-equipped high-capacity handgun, pouring over 200 rounds from the weapon at his victims before beiing subdued by MPs.

The death decision came down at his sentencing hearing after approximately 45 minutes of one-sided closing arguements, Hasan did not say anything other than “I have no closing statement” when it came his turn to speak. This mirrored the entirety of his trial where he called no witnesses and offered no testimony. Hasan had wanted to plead guilty to the charges before his trial even began but military law forbids the defendant from pleading guilty in cases that involve the death penalty.

Shot during the incident in Texas, the wheelchair-bound Hasan will be transferred to Fort Leavenworth on the earliest possible flight according to officials.

Subject to automatic appeal, Hasan’s death sentence will be reviewed by the convening officer and in order to be carried out, and must be signed by the president of the United States.

The military has not carried out a death sentence since 1961. It was then that John Arthur Bennett was executed by hanging at Fort Leavenworth for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl in 1954.

Hasan will now join five other prisoner’s on Fort Leavenworth’s death row.