Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the
firing squad execution of Major Nidal Malik Hasan would be broadcast via livestream.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth previously revealed the firing squad execution would be public.
The execution of Hasan will be the first U.S. military firing squad execution since WWII.
He will be executed on December 3 at 1 pm.
“Of course we’re doing it at Fort Hood. We’re going to do it on a Thursday. We’re going to do it at 1 o’clock, which is when he did it. It’s going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad,” Hegseth explained.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” he added.
CBS News shared further:
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed CBS News’ reporting that the Dec. 3 execution will be livestreamed. Hegseth told Real America’s Voice the execution would be public “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that Hegseth recommended, and President Trump approved, a plan to use an Army firing squad.
“Death penalty through firing squad, and he deserves it,” Mr. Trump said during an unrelated White House event on Friday.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who is retiring, called the decision “beyond disgusting.” Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth, but is now expressing his regret in doing so.
“Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting. Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America,” Tillis said.
Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting. Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.
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— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis)
October 9, 2026
“I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) commented.
I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that.
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— Rep. Austin Scott (@AustinScottGA08)
October 9, 2026
“Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment,” Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) said.
“Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The victims deserve justice administered with solemnity. Broadcasting a death diminishes us and is not an effective deterrent. I urge him to reconsider,” he continued.
Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment.
Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The…
— Senator John Curtis (@SenJohnCurtis)
October 9, 2026
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The New York Times:
Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State.
The announcement adds to the growing spectacle around the planned execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others when he brought a personal handgun onto the grounds of Fort Hood, Texas. The rampage was the deadliest shooting at an American military base and sent shock waves through the U.S. military.
There are few countries that hold public executions. The human rights group Amnesty International has highlighted some cases in which public executions in Iran and Saudi Arabia have been filmed by bystanders.
The practice of filming and releasing video of an execution is more common with terror groups like the Islamic State, which became infamous for videos of gruesome executions of prisoners who were not given due process or convicted of crimes. Mass shooters have in some cases broadcast their killing sprees on livestream sites.
In an interview with Real America’s Voice, a conservative outlet, aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the execution would be public and available to watch “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” The Pentagon later confirmed in a statement that the execution would be livestreamed.
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