Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event
Officials clarified execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be livestreamed Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event when the sentence is carried out later this year. Officials later clarified the execution will be livestreamed and that more details…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, will be a public event. The execution, by firing squad, is scheduled to take place at Fort Hood in Texas on 3 December.
According to the Pentagon, the execution will be livestreamed. Hegseth said in an interview with Real America’s Voice that Hasan will be executed by a firing squad of soldiers.
Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist from Virginia, admitted in court that he was the gunman and apologised for "any mistakes" during his court-martial. The execution will be the first military execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two, and the first US military execution in more than 60 years.
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