Fort Hood Execution Will Be Live Streamed

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Coincident with the announcement, Pope Leo has weighed in, calling the death penalty an attack on human dignity.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vowed that the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan—the former Army major convicted of murdering 13 and wounding more than 30 others in 2009 at Fort Hood —will be live streamed on December 3 at 1 p.m. CT.

While President Trump has approved, he has apparently left the door open on livestreaming the event.

As a reporter who was among the first to break the Obama administration’s labeling of the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence,” the planned execution—the military’s first by firing squad since World War II, and its first of any kind since 1961—is sobering and complicated.

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