Pentagon plans public broadcast of Nidal Hasan execution

The Pentagon has approved plans to make the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist, public. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution, by firing squad, will be livestreamed, allowing the public to watch. According to the Dawn, this would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century and an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood.

The decision to livestream the execution is "unprecedented in the modern era" and "on uncertain legal terrain," according to John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death, as quoted by Capital FM Kenya. Hegseth said people need to understand that there are serious consequences for such actions.

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