Fort Hood Shooter's Firing Squad Execution to Be Livestreamed — SkimNews
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- Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 and injuring 32 in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 — the U.S. military's first firing squad execution since World War II.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the execution would be livestreamed on Oct. 7 while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where he was visiting the carrier's crew that supported the Iran war.
- Hegseth, when asked about Hasan's final requests, told Real America's Voice: "Don't care. We'll see him on December 3rd."
- Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said Monday that President Trump approved the execution; Pentagon officials confirmed the livestream on Oct. 8, and the White House referred all livestream questions to the Pentagon the same day.
- The last U.S. military execution was the April 13, 1961 hanging of Army Private John Bennett — a roughly 65-year gap underscoring how rarely the U.S. military carries out capital punishment.
Why it matters: The firing squad method hasn't been used by the U.S. military since WWII, and Hasan — convicted of killing 13 and wounding 32 at Fort Hood in 2009 — will be the first service member executed since the 1961 hanging of Private John Bennett. Hegseth's livestream directive makes a historically rare military punishment broadly publicly accessible.
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