Fort Hood shooter's firing squad execution to be livestreamed: Pentagon
The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said, after War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on Thursday that the death sentence would be public.
TL;DR
- Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, will be executed by firing squad.
- The execution is scheduled for December 3rd at 1 p.m. local time at Fort Hood.
- President Donald Trump authorized the execution, and the Army intends to carry out the death penalty.
- The Pentagon confirmed the execution will be livestreamed and will be public.
- Hasan has been on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since his 2013 conviction.
- The last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936, and the last U.S. military firing squad execution was in 1945.