How the US plan to livestream an execution compares with global practice
The U.S. military plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. If carried out as planned, death penalty experts said it would mark the first known broadcast or livestream of a lawful execution. Executions are generally conducted behind prison walls, and internet platforms and…
The U.S. military has announced plans to live-stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people, by firing squad on December 3rd. If implemented as scheduled, this would be the first known broadcast or live streaming of a lawful execution, according to death penalty experts. Executions typically occur behind prison walls, and internet platforms and governments have long sought to restrict the dissemination of violent execution footage.
Has a lawful execution ever been live-streamed or broadcast to the general public before? Death penalty experts contacted by Reuters stated that they were unaware of any previous lawful execution that had been live-streamed or broadcast to a general audience. While execution footage has occasionally emerged after the event, such as in the case of the hanging of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2006, that footage was not shown live.
Today, broadcasts and live streams are common for court proceedings, parliamentary debates, and other statutory events.
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