Hegseth says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be ‘public’ – Al Jazeera

Hegseth says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be ‘public’  Al Jazeera

An official at the Pentagon told Al Jazeera that former US Army Major Nidal Hasan’s execution would be ‘livestreamed’. An official at the Pentagon told Al Jazeera that former US Army Major Nidal Hassan’s execution would be ‘livestreamed’. United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the execution of a former US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas will be publicly available to watch. In an interview with the media outlet Real America’s Voice on Thursday, Hegseth was asked about President Donald Trump’s recent order to use a firing squad to execute Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of the 2009 shooting.

The secretary said he approved of the decision, calling it a “no-brainer”. “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth told interviewer Jack Posobiec. “Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Hegseth added that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on December 3 at 1pm US Central Time (19:00 GMT), the same time that the 2009 shooting took place. Hasan was sentenced to death in August 2013 after a military jury found him guilty of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder for the shooting. The former Army major walked into an army processing centre