Vance casts doubt on plan to livestream Nidal Hasan’s military execution
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Vice President JD Vance has cast doubt on whether the Pentagon will livestream the scheduled execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
Hasan is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3. The execution would be the first by a U.S. military firing squad since 1945. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the public would be able to watch, and a Pentagon official told AFP that it would be streamed live.
Vance told reporters Friday that he did not know whether the broadcast would happen and said he would not watch it. President Donald Trump said he approved of livestreaming the execution but added that the Pentagon was still determining whether to proceed with a broadcast.
The proposal has drawn criticism across party lines. Republican lawmakers John Curtis and Austin Scott said broadcasting an execution would turn punishment into spectacle, while Democratic senators Chris Murphy and Mark Kelly compared the practice to executions associated with extremist or authoritarian groups. The U.N. human rights office said livestreaming would amount to a public execution and breach the prohibition on torture. Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the proposal a promotion of a “culture of death.”
In Australia, the Greens urged federal officials to prevent the possible livestream from being accessible there, while other lawmakers raised concerns about enforceability and freedom of expression. Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.
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WHAT THE EDITOR DID
The second model checked the writer's draft against the same sources and changed it before publication. Struck words were in the draft; underlined words are its corrections.
WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: The story needs small wording changes so it does not treat the proposed livestream or scheduled execution as certain. - "Hasan is due to be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3.": Sources say Hasan is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, but not that the execution is certain to occur; wording should reflect that it is scheduled. - "In Australia, the Greens urged federal officials to prevent the stream from being accessible there, while other lawmakers raised concerns about enforceability and freedom of expression.": The story refers to an actual stream, but sources describe only a possible livestream or plan that officials were urged to prevent.
THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES
Vance casts doubt on plan to livestream Nidal Hasan’s military execution
Vice President JD Vance has cast doubt on whether the Pentagon will livestream the scheduled execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
Hasan is duescheduled to be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3. The execution would be the first by a U.S. military firing squad since 1945. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the public would be able to watch, and a Pentagon official told AFP that it would be streamed live.
Vance told reporters Friday that he did not know whether the broadcast would happen and said he would not watch it. President Donald Trump said he approved of livestreaming the execution but added that the Pentagon was still determining whether to proceed with a broadcast.
The proposal has drawn criticism across party lines. Republican lawmakers John Curtis and Austin Scott said broadcasting an execution would turn punishment into spectacle, while Democratic senators Chris Murphy and Mark Kelly compared the practice to executions associated with extremist or authoritarian groups. The U.N. human rights office said livestreaming would amount to a public execution and breach the prohibition on torture. Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the proposal a promotion of a “culture of death.”
In Australia, the Greens urged federal officials to prevent the streampossible livestream from being accessible there, while other lawmakers raised concerns about enforceability and freedom of expression. Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.
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