Pete Hegseth Reveals Fort Hood Terrorist Nidal Hasan’s Execution By Firing Squad Will Be Made PUBLIC

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, would be available for the public to see.

In comments to Real America’s Voice on Thursday, Oct. 8, Hegseth said that Hasan would be getting a “firing squad of soldiers.”

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there are serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth said.

President Donald Trump approved the firing squad execution for Hasan at the recommendation of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced in a post on X on Oct. 5.

“Judgment Day has finally come,” Parnell wrote.

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MAJOR NEWS!!! @SECWAR REVEALS FORT HOOD SHOOTER’S FIRING SQUAD EXECUTION WILL BE PUBLIC

Sec. Pete Hegseth says Nidal Hasan will be executed by soldiers at Fort Hood on December 3 at 1 PM—the same time as the 2009 attack.

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— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 8, 2026

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Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center on the Texas base on 5 November 2009, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. A military jury sentenced him to death in 2013, and he has been held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas ever since. He exhausted his appeals last year, which cleared the way for Donald Trump to approve the sentence this week on a recommendation from Hegseth.

Investigators had found that Hasan had exchanged 18 emails with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who was subsequently killed in a US drone strike, in the months before the attack. At his court martial, Hasan said he had acted to stop American soldiers from deploying to Afghanistan to kill fellow Muslims, before his own impending deployment. A review led by William Webster, a former FBI director, concluded that the bureau should have investigated his correspondence more thoroughly.

In the interview, Hegseth said Barack Obama had called the attack “workplace violence”. The Pentagon initially treated the shooting as a workplace-violence incident rather than a terrorist attack, a classification that affected the victims’ eligibility for Purple Hearts and other combat-related benefits.

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