Pentagon says there will be a livestream of firing squad’s execution of the Fort Hood shooter
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the public would be able to watch the firing squad execution of a former Army officer convicted of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.
Speaking from the USS Abraham Lincoln to the conservative news outlet Real America’s Voice , Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is “going to get a firing squad of soldiers, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” said Hegseth, who called the method of execution a “no-brainer.”
Hegseth said the execution would be carried out at 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at Fort Hood — the same day of the week and time of day as Hasan’s attack.
The execution will be livestreamed, according to a Defense Department official, though it’s not yet clear on which platform.
The last military execution was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill an 11-year-old girl in Austria.
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“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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