War Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview Thursday that the scheduled execution of former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan — who murdered several American soldiers in a shooting attack targeting Fort Hood in 2009 — will be public. Acting Secretary of the Army Adam Telle set the date for December 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. Central Time at Fort Hood, Texas, following a recommendation by Hegseth that President Donald Trump approved.
The Pentagon first announced the firing-squad method on October 5. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell stated that Hegseth recommended, and Trump approved, “death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan.” Hegseth replied to the announcement on social media with the single word “Justice.”
Telle subsequently issued the memorandum establishing the December 3 date, time, and location. The execution would be the first carried out by the U.S. military since 1961 and the first by Army firing squad since World War II.
In an interview with Real America’s Voice conducted aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Hegseth addressed the arrangements. “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” the secretary said.
“Army major betrays his country, radical Islamist kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood. Of course we’re doing it at Fort Hood,” he added. Hegseth stressed that the timing of the execution is timed to symbolically line up with the anniversary of Hasan’s murderous rampage.
“We’re going to do it on a Thursday. We’re going to do it at one o’clock, which is when he did it. And it’s going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.”
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WOW! SecWar Pete Hegseth just announced the firing squad execution of Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan will be **PUBLIC**
At the SAME time and place where Hasan carried out the attack.
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because… pic.twitter.com/boEWPqFIUU
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 8, 2026
Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, carried out the attack on November 5, 2009, at a soldier readiness processing center on Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. He entered the building, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and opened fire with a handgun on soldiers who were largely unarmed and awaiting medical and administrative processing before deployment.
A total of 13 people were killed, 12 of whom were U.S. service members. One civilian employee was also among the dead, while 32 additional people were wounded. Hasan was himself shot and paralyzed from the waist down by responding civilian police officers.
A military court-martial convicted him in August 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. The panel of officers sentenced him to death. Hasan represented himself at trial, acknowledged that he was the shooter, and described the attack as an effort to protect Islamic extremists abroad from U.S. military action.
He has remained on military death row at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth during the subsequent appeals process required under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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