In this court room sketch, the Judge, U.S. Army Col. Tara Osborn and the court reporter are shown as Judge Osborn reads the jury instructions during court proceedings in the court martial of U.S. Army... (Associated Press) 
 
 Maj. Nidal Hasan has been convicted of premeditated murder for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. That means he's now eligible for the death penalty. 
 
 Military jurors found the Army psychiatrist guilty on Friday for the attack that killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others at the Texas military base. 
 
 The trial now enters a penalty phase, where prosecutors will ask jurors to sentence Hasan to death. 
 
 Hasan is acting as his own attorney. But he didn't call witnesses or testify, and he questioned only three of prosecutors' nearly 90 witnesses. 
 
 Through media leaks and statements to the judge, the American-born Muslim signaled that he believed the attack was justified as a way to protect Islamic and Taliban leaders from U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. 
 
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 Military jurors resumed deliberations Friday in the trial of the Army psychiatrist who told them he was responsible for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood and mounted nearly no defense, even as prosecutors asked for a sweeping conviction that would allow a death sentence. 
 
 Maj. Nidal Hasan _ who is acting as his own attorney _ is accused of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others at the sprawling Texas military base in November 2009. But he declined to call any witnesses, testify in his own defense or give a closing argument during his trial. 
 
 Hasan gave a brief opening statement to jurors nearly three weeks ago, saying evidence would "clearly show" he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had "switched sides. 
 
 Since then, he's mostly remained silent as prosecutors called nearly 90 witnesses and submitted hundreds of pieces of evidence. 
 
 Jurors started deliberating the case Thursday after prosecutors finished their closing argument. The jury deliberated for nearly three and a half hours before asking to rehear testimony from the police officer who ended the Nov. 5, 2009, attack by shooting Hasan, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. 
 
 The judge agreed but then allowed the jury to break for the night. 
 
 Hasan, an American-born Muslim, faces numerous counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in the deadliest attack ever on a U.S. military base. Prosecutors have pushed for the death penalty, and military attorneys assigned to Hasan _ who have remained on standby throughout the trial as he goes it alone _ have suggested he wants to be put to death. 
 
 In order for Hassan to face the death penalty, the jury's 11 men and two women will have to find him unanimously guilty of at least one count of premeditated murder as well as another murder charge. The military court system hasn't executed an active-duty U.S. soldier since 1961. 
 
 "We ask you return a unanimous verdict of guilty to 13 premeditated counts and an additional 32 attempted premeditated counts," prosecutor Col. Steve Henricks told jurors during Thursday's closing arguments. 
 
 Henricks described how, when Hasan learned he would be part of a unit deploying to Afghanistan, he visited Guns Galore, a firearms store in Killeen, adjacent to Fort Hood about 70 miles north Austin. Hasan asked for advice and bought the most high tech, highest-capacity pistol available. 
 
 Hasan later trained at an off-base gun range and used laser sights. He eventually carefully targeted a medical building he knew would be crammed with soldiers preparing for or returned from overseas military deployments _ mostly in Afghanistan or Iraq _ the same day his unit would be at the building. 
 
 Henricks reminded jurors that before Hasan started shooting, Hasan cried "Allahu Akbar!" _ Arabic for "God is great!" 
 
 The prosecutor added: "So no one should be confused about his motives that day and no one should be confused today either." 
 
 Henricks also replayed an FBI crime scene video that showed victims' bodies strewn on the floor, among overturned desks, scattered office chairs and pools of blood. 
 
 "With a doctor's precision, knowing where vital organs are, and trained at that range, you see kill shots to the body," Henricks said of Hasan's targeting his victims. 
 
 Since his opening statement, Hasan sat mostly silent in his wheelchair, raising few objections. He has argued in letters to media outlets that the rampage was necessary to protect Muslim insurgents abroad from American soldiers in combat. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Michael Graczyk contributed to this report. ||||| Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- Deliberations were suspended for the night Thursday in the court-martial of the Army psychiatrist charged with massacring soldiers at Fort Hood. 
 
 The jury will continue weighing the fate Friday morning of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is charged with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in the November 5, 2009, shooting rampage. 
 
 The only real question likely facing the jury is Hasan's degree of guilt, given that he told the court during opening arguments that the evidence would clearly show he was the shooter. 
 
 Court reconvened briefly Thursday evening after the jury said it had two questions. Jurors asked to have police officer Mark Todd's testimony read back to them and asked to see a map of buildings at Fort Hood. 
 
 The jury of 13 military officers began deliberations after Hasan declined to make a statement during closing arguments. The prosecution urged the jury to convict, saying the evidence showed he believed he had a jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as possible. 
 
 "The defense chooses not to make a closing statement," Hasan told the court, refusing to challenge any of the evidence presented during 13 days of testimony in the court-martial. 
 
 If the jury of 13 senior officers unanimously convicts Hasan of two or more counts of premeditated murder, he faces a possible death sentence in the penalty phase. 
 
 "There is no doubt, as I said in the beginning, the accused is the shooter," the prosecutor, Col. Steven Henricks, told the jury. 
 
 "The only question for you is ...is this a premeditated design to kill?" 
 
 For more than 90 minutes, the prosecutor took the jury methodically through the evidence in the case, meticulously piecing together how they say Hasan prepared and planned for an attack at a deployment processing center for soldiers deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq. 
 
 Prosecutors have maintained the American-born Muslim underwent a progressive radicalization that led to the massacre at the sprawling central Texas base. 
 
 "He did not want to deploy, and he came to believe he had a jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as possible," Henricks told the jury. 
 
 Hasan picked the day -- November 5, 2009 -- because it was when the units he was scheduled to deploy with to Afghanistan were scheduled to go through the processing center, he said. 
 
 Hasan, who has been acting as his own attorney, rested his case without calling a single witness or taking the stand to testify on his own behalf. 
 
 His decision not to offer a defense was an anticlimactic end to the trial in which prosecution witnesses, primarily survivors, painted a horrific picture of what unfolded inside a processing center during the attack. 
 
 During closing arguments, prosecutors showed a graphic FBI video of the crime scene hours after the rampage, where bodies, blood and bullets still covered the floor. 
 
 As the video was shown to the jury, some of the family members of those killed fought back tears. 
 
 One woman laid her head on her husband's shoulder, tears pouring down her cheeks, while another woman -- a wife of a victim -- left the courtroom. 
 
 For his part, Hasan watched the video, appearing to pay close attention. 
 
 Hasan, who has insisted that the jury not be allowed to consider lesser charges against him, said his attack on soldiers at Fort Hood was not an act of "sudden passion." 
 
 There was "adequate provocation" for the attack because the soldiers were going to participate in "an illegal war" in Afghanistan, Hasan told the military judge Wednesday, arguing against the jury being allowed to consider voluntary manslaughter or unpremeditated murder. 
 
 Prosecutors argued against the inclusion of lesser charges, saying the attack wasn't carried out in "the heat of sudden passion," and Hasan said he agreed. 
 
 Hasan rests case, calls no witnesses 
 
 Much has been made of Hasan's defense or, as his stand-by attorneys have said, the lack of it. Judge Tara Osborn declined a request by Hasan's attorneys to drop out of the case. The attorneys argued that Hasan was helping the prosecution put him to death. 
 
 There may be something to that claim. 
 
 Hasan took credit for the shooting rampage at the outset of the trial, telling the jury during opening statements that the evidence will show "I was the shooter." 
 
 The judge barred Hasan from pleading guilty at the start of the court-martial. Under military law, defendants cannot enter guilty pleas in capital punishment cases. 
 
 Osborn has refused to allow Hasan to argue "defense of others," a claim that he carried out the shootings to protect the Afghan Taliban and its leaders from U.S. soldiers. 
 
 Hasan challenges witness account of shooting 
 
 Perhaps as a way around that ruling, Hasan in recent days has leaked documents through his civilian attorney to The New York Times and Fox News that offer a glimpse of his justification for carrying out the attack. Among the documents was a mental health evaluation conducted by a military panel to determine whether Hasan was fit to stand trial. 
 
 "I don't think what I did was wrong because it was for the greater cause of helping my Muslim brothers," he told the panel, according to pages of the report published by The New York Times. 
 
 He also said, according to the documents: "I'm paraplegic and could be in jail for the rest of my life. However, if I died by lethal injection, I would still be a martyr." 
 
 Military prosecutors called 89 witnesses and submitted more than 700 pieces of evidence before resting their case, hoping to show that the American-born Muslim had undergone what they described as a progressive radicalization. 
 
 They have argued to the jury that Hasan, who was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, did not want to fight other Muslims and believed he had a jihad duty to kill as many soldiers as possible. 
 
 The judge excluded much of the evidence that the prosecution contends goes to the heart of the motive for the attack, including e-mail communications between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric who officials say became a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. 
 
 She also declined to allow prosecutors to use materials they maintain showed Hasan's interest in the actions of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the American soldier sentenced to death for killing two soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others at the start of the Iraq war, an attack he said he carried out to stop soldiers from killing Muslims. 
 
 Along with the e-mails and the material related to Akbar, Osborn also declined to allow the use of Hasan's academic presentation on suicide bombings, saying "motive is not an element of the crime." 
 
 The final witness called by the prosecution, Dr. Tonya Kozminski, testified Tuesday about what Hasan told her would happen to the Army if he were deployed. 
 
 "The last thing he said ... 'They will pay,' " Kozminski said. 
 
 Hasan's defense strategy martyrdom? 
 
 CNN's Ed Lavandera and Jason Morris contributed to this report.
– It seems clear now that Nidal Hasan's decision to act as his own attorney in the Fort Hood shooting trial was really a decision to not act as an attorney of any kind. A day after he rested his case without calling a single witness, Hasan skipped his closing argument, reports the AP. After prosecutors laid out in detail Hasan's role in the 2009 rampage that killed 13 people, the judge told Hasan he could go. "The defense chooses not to make a closing statement," he said. Hasan's decisions over the last two days seem to support the claim made by his defense team earlier in the military trial that he hopes to get the death penalty, notes CNN. He admitted in his opening statement that he was, in fact, the shooter. The jury of 13 officers will now begin deliberations. If they reach a unanimous guilty verdict, the death penalty is possible.