FORT HOOD, Texas  — A military jury on Wednesday, Aug. 28, sentenced a U.S. Army psychiatrist to death for the 2009 mass murder of 13 people, mostly unarmed soldiers, at Fort Hood, Texas. The convicted gunman said he carried on the killings in retaliation for U.S. wars in the Muslim world.

Major Nidal Hasan, who said he wanted to be a martyr, faces death by lethal injection for the rampage that also wounded 31 people.

Artist rendering of Hasan during the trial.

The jury deliberated just over two hours before deciding on the death penalty for Hasan, who opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun in a medical facility at the sprawling central Texas military base just weeks before he was to be deployed to Afghanistan.

Bearded and in a wheelchair, Hasan showed no visible expression as the president of the jury read aloud the sentence that he “be put to death.” He is paralyzed from being shot by police trying to end the November 5, 2009 rampage.

Death sentences are rare in the military, which last executed a member of the service 52 years ago. Hasan, 42, will become the sixth man on death row at the U.S. military’s prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The same jury convicted him on Friday of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.

Two widows and three mothers of the 13 murder victims were inside the courtroom and were quiet as the sentence was read. Afterward, two of the women embraced, and one woman could be seen crying.