Pentagon to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan: AFP

• The execution will be carried out by firing squad, according to a Pentagon official.
• President Donald Trump approved the execution, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed it would be conducted publicly.
• Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, which killed 13 people and wounded around 30 others.

The US Department of War will livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of carrying out the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, by firing squad, a Pentagon official confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday.

The official said further details of the unprecedented procedure would be announced later. The US military has not carried out an execution since 1961.

The move follows US President Donald Trump’s approval of the execution. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed in a video posted by the Pentagon on X during a visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier that the sentence would be carried out publicly by a firing squad, saying the operation was intended to send a clear message about the severe consequences of such acts.

According to Amnesty International, 17 public executions were recorded worldwide last year, including 11 in Iran and six in Afghanistan.

The case dates back to Nov. 5, 2009, when Hasan opened fire at the medical center at Fort Hood military base, killing 13 people, including 12 soldiers, and injuring around 30 others. He sought to prevent them from taking part in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A military jury convicted Hasan in 2013 and sentenced him to death after evidence established that he had communicated directly online with Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda leader who was later killed in a US airstrike in Yemen in 2011.

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