Trump calls off livestream of execution by firing squad

President Donald Trump has announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at a military base in Texas, will not be livestreamed. This decision comes after initial plans from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to livestream the execution, which drew bipartisan criticism. Hasan, who was sentenced to death in 2013, is set to be executed by firing squad on December 3 at the site of the Fort Hood attack.

The last execution under the US military justice system was in 1945, and the last public execution in the United States occurred in 1936. Critics have raised concerns about the potential for the execution to be used as propaganda by terrorists and the impact on children who may be exposed to the footage.

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