Pentagon says Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be livestreamed
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The U.S. military plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Hasan’s execution is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood and would be open to public viewing. A Pentagon official subsequently confirmed that it would be livestreamed and said further details would be released.
Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center on the base on Nov. 5, 2009, killing 13 people and wounding 32. A military jury convicted him and sentenced him to death in 2013. Hasan, who has been imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, exhausted his appeals in 2025.
President Donald Trump approved the execution following a recommendation from Hegseth, as required under military law. It would be the first U.S. military execution since Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged in 1961 and the military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.
Deutsche Welle reported that a United Nations human rights body criticized the livestreaming plan, saying a broadcast execution would amount to a public execution and constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.
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