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  "id": 13062795,
  "title": "Pentagon plans public broadcast of Nidal Hasan execution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/pentagon-plans-public-broadcast-of-nidal-hasan-execution",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T07:48:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
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    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1564744/pentagon-plans-public-broadcast-of-nidal-hasan-execution/"
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  "summary": "The Pentagon has approved plans to make the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist, public. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution, by firing squad, will be livestreamed, allowing the public to watch. According to the Dawn, this would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century and an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood.\n\nThe decision to livestream the execution is \"unprecedented in the modern era\" and \"on uncertain legal terrain,\" according to John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death, as quoted by Capital FM Kenya. Hegseth said people need to understand that there are serious consequences for such actions.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Bernama",
        "title": "World : US To Livestream Army Firing Squad Execution Of Fort Hood Shooter, Pentagon Says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/world-us-to-livestream-army-firing-squad-execution-of-fort-hood",
        "published": "2026-10-09T05:19:30.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Haaretz",
        "title": "U.S. to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/u-s-to-livestream-firing-squad-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter",
        "published": "2026-10-09T07:57:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "GBC Ghana",
        "title": "Fort Hood shooter’s execution by firing squad will be ‘public’ and livestreamed, Pentagon says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/fort-hood-shooters-execution-by-firing-squad-will-be-public-and",
        "published": "2026-10-09T08:48:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "Hegseth says Fort Hood shooter's military execution will be 'livestreamed'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/hegseth-says-fort-hood-shooters-military-execution-will-be",
        "published": "2026-10-09T09:39:39.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}