Death penalty: US military execution to be shown via live stream
For the first time in 65 years, the US wants to carry out a military execution and, as the Pentagon chief says, publicly. It would be the first public execution in the country in almost a century.
US Defence Minister Pete Hegseth has confirmed that the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist convicted of murder, will be livestreamed. Hasan is set to be executed by firing squad on December 3 at Fort Hood in Texas for killing 13 people and injuring 32 in a 2009 mass shooting. The execution, approved by President Donald Trump, would be the first military execution in the US in 65 years and the first by firing squad since World War II.
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy criticised the plan, calling it "medieval" and likening it to practices by terrorist groups like the Islamic State.
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