UN calls US plans to livestream execution 'abhorrent'
The United Nations on Friday called U.S. plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, "abhorrent" and said it could be a violation of prohibitions against torture. "These kinds of public executions we've seen in other countries, whether it's Iran or Afghanistan ... can constitute a form of cruel, inhuman, or degrading…
On Friday, the United Nations strongly criticized the United States' intention to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the gunman responsible for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that claimed 13 lives. According to the UN spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, such public executions, including those seen in countries like Iran and Afghanistan, can be considered cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Dujarric emphasized that displaying such an execution live, making it public, could also violate the prohibition against torture. The UN spokesperson reiterated that witnessing someone being executed in a public setting, or in front of live cameras, is inherently abhorrent. Hasan is set to become the first individual in U.S. military history to be executed by firing squad since 1945, with the execution scheduled for December 3 at the same Texas base where Hasan carried out the shooting from a medical facility.
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