Pentagon to livestream Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution
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The U.S. military will livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, according to Pentagon officials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Hasan is scheduled to be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. on Dec. 3. Speaking to Real America’s Voice, Hegseth said the execution would be public and that people would be able to watch it. A Pentagon official subsequently confirmed that it would be livestreamed and said further details would follow.
President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s execution on Hegseth’s recommendation, the Pentagon announced earlier in the week. Hasan exhausted his appeals last year, according to The Guardian, and has been held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
A military jury sentenced Hasan to death in 2013 for the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at a medical processing center where soldiers were preparing for deployment. Hasan said at his court-martial that he acted to prevent U.S. troops from deploying to Afghanistan to kill fellow Muslims.
The execution would be the U.S. military’s first since Army Private John Bennett was hanged in 1961 and its first by firing squad since World War II.
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