Pentagon says Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution will be livestreamed
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The U.S. military will livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said a day earlier that Hasan would be executed at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. on Dec. 3 and that the event would be public. A Pentagon official subsequently confirmed that it would be shown by livestream and said further details would follow.
Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center on the base on Nov. 5, 2009. A military jury convicted him of murder and attempted murder and sentenced him to death in 2013. He said during his court-martial that he carried out the attack to prevent U.S. troops from deploying to Afghanistan and killing Muslims.
President Donald Trump approved the execution on Hegseth’s recommendation, according to reports citing the Pentagon. Hasan exhausted his appeals last year and has been held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
The execution would be the U.S. military’s first since Army Private John Bennett was hanged in 1961. It would also be the military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.
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WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story is broadly supported, but one sentence should be clarified to avoid implying an unreported sequence around Trump’s approval and Hasan’s appeals. - "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said a day earlier that Hasan would be executed at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. on Dec. 3": Sources say Hegseth gave the time, date and place, but the story omits that Dec. 3 is Thursday; this is not material. However, no issue. - "President Donald Trump approved the execution on Hegseth’s recommendation after Hasan exhausted his appeals, according to reports citing the Pentagon.": The wording implies the approval occurred after the appeals were exhausted as part of the same reported sequence; sources say Hasan exhausted appeals last year and Trump approved the execution this week/on Monday, so the sentence should be clarified.
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Pentagon says Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution will be livestreamed
The U.S. military will livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said a day earlier that Hasan would be executed at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. on Dec. 3 and that the event would be public. A Pentagon official subsequently confirmed that it would be shown by livestream and said further details would follow.
Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center on the base on Nov. 5, 2009. A military jury convicted him of murder and attempted murder and sentenced him to death in 2013. He said during his court-martial that he carried out the attack to prevent U.S. troops from deploying to Afghanistan and killing Muslims.
President Donald Trump approved the execution on Hegseth’s recommendation after Hasan exhausted his appeals,recommendation, according to reports citing the Pentagon. Hasan exhausted his appeals last year and has been held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
The execution would be the U.S. military’s first since Army Private John Bennett was hanged in 1961. It would also be the military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.
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