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  "id": 14736943,
  "title": "Hegseth church allies backed plan for ‘public’ execution of Fort Hood shooter",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/hegseth-church-allies-backed-plan-for-public-execution-of-fort-hood",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T16:00:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/15/pete-hegseth-crec-church-execution-livestream"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Leader of CREC church – whose pastors have advocated death penalty – says he ‘prefers public executions to private’ Donald Trump announced Thursday he was cancelling Pete Hegseth’s recently announced plans to livestream a military execution – because “many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die”. But there were some fans of Hegseth’s now-scotched idea: the rightwing…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Arutz Sheva - Israel National News",
        "title": "Trump cancels planned livestream of Fort Hood terrorist's execution",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/trump-cancels-planned-livestream-of-fort-hood-terrorists-execution",
        "published": "2026-10-15T17:26:34.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}