Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

The US Pentagon has announced that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, will be carried out by firing squad and livestreamed. Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009.

The execution is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood in Texas. According to the Pentagon, it will be the first military execution by firing squad since World War II and the first public execution in the US in almost a century.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed plans to livestream the execution, saying "people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things." A Pentagon official also told Reuters that details of the livestream will follow.

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