The Pentagon announced that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former U.S. Army officer convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be livestreamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told right‑wing activist Jack Posobiec that the decision was a “no brainer” and that the execution would be carried out by a firing squad and made publicly available so that the public could see the consequences of such crimes.
Hasan, who was found guilty on 45 counts of murder and sentenced to death in 2013, is scheduled to be executed on December 3. This will mark the first military firing squad execution in the United States since 1945 and is part of a broader Trump administration effort to revive federal executions using methods such as firing squads, nitrogen gas and electrocution.
The Pentagon clarified that the execution will be livestreamed, and Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted on X that “judgment day for Hasan has finally come” after the president approved the sentence. Hegseth said he had no interest in any final requests Hasan might have made and that the execution would proceed as scheduled.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a death sentence imposed by court‑martial must be approved by the president before it can be carried out. The decision follows a period in which the Trump administration executed 13 people, the most under any president in more than a century, after a 17‑year hiatus. The Biden administration had previously commuted 37 death sentences before leaving office. This story is developing.
