Trump approves firing squad for execution of Nidal Hasan for 2009 Fort Hood massacre

President Donald Trump has given the green light for Nidal Hasan to be executed by firing squad. Hasan was found guilty of the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, where he killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting "Allahu Akbar." Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell revealed on X that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had recommended the firing squad method of execution for the "jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers."

The execution's location and timing have not been disclosed yet, but Army policy mandates that it must occur within 150 days of the president's approval, but not before 60 days. Hasan, serving as an Army psychiatrist, carried out the attack at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center on November 5, 2009, before being apprehended and sentenced to death in 2013.

He is currently held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where he is among four inmates awaiting execution in the Army justice system. The Army's plan to execute condemned prisoners at the federal facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, was revealed by ABC News in June, following internal documents and officials. This will mark the first military execution since 1961 when Pvt. John Bennett was put to death for raping and attempting to murder an 11-year-old girl in Austria.