The U.S. last held a public execution in the 1930s. The Pentagon wants to change that
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Ford Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
The Pentagon plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others at the Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009. This would be the first public execution in the US since the 1930s.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the execution by firing squad would be livestreamed on December 3. The chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said he would defer to the Pentagon on whether US networks could air the execution.
The FCC chair, according to CNBC, understood that the execution would not air on broadcast TV. An expert on FCC issues said there is no legal basis for the commission to intervene in a broadcaster’s decision on whether to air a live execution.
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