Trump Approves Firing-Squad Execution For Convicted Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan

Pentagon plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, but legal experts say only Hasan is likely to have standing to challenge it. The move has drawn criticism from clergy and others, while raising questions about military rules that bar anyone under 18 from witnessing an execution.

A Pentagon plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan has drawn sharp criticism from the UN, US lawmakers and religious leaders. Hasan, who killed 13 people in 2009, is set to be executed on December 3, in what would be the US military’s first firing-squad execution since 1945.

The Pentagon says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it should be public. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 attack, is set to become the first US military execution since 1961 and the first firing-squad execution since World War II.

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than two dozen in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, the Pentagon said. It would be the first US military execution since 1961 and closes a long-running case that remains one of the deadliest attacks on a US base.