What to know about the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday said the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, will be open to the public, a new revelation to the first U.S. military execution in over six decades. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas in...
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major who fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, will be open to the public. According to Hegseth, Hasan will be executed by a firing squad of soldiers, and the event will be livestreamed, allowing people to watch it.
The execution, scheduled to take place at Fort Hood in Texas, will be the first military execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two. Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist from Virginia, was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013 for carrying out the Al-Qaeda-inspired attack. He admitted in court that he was the gunman and apologised for "any mistakes".
Hegseth stated that the public execution is intended to demonstrate the serious consequences of such actions. The White House has not commented on whether President Donald Trump supports a livestreamed public execution, although a Pentagon spokesperson said that Trump had approved the execution.
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