Trump sends mixed signals on livestreaming Hasan execution
Trump has not said whether the Pentagon will livestream the firing-squad execution, which critics say could aid extremist recruitment and violate American values.
- On Friday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that the Pentagon's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution would breach the absolute prohibition of torture.
- The US Army scheduled the firing squad execution of Hasan for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, with the Trump administration inviting the public to watch the shooting via livestream.
- Livestreaming the execution would be the first public state-sanctioned killing in the US in 90 years, with experts warning such killings constitute "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment."
- Republican Representative Austin Scott said, "Livestreaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that," while Archbishop Paul Coakley called the proposal a "barbaric promotion of a culture of death."
- Columnist Paul Daley wrote that the planned livestream reflects the Trump administration's "moral vacuity," warning it "says it all about what is happening in America today.
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A murderer of American soldiers sentenced to the death penalty must be executed in public. A first since 1936 in the United States, and this decision shockes across the Atlantic. So that the White House could reverse. - Live execution broadcast in the United States: faced with controversy, the Trump administration could reverse (International).
Following the sharp criticism of the planned live broadcast of an execution in the US, President Donald Trump has relativized the announcement.
The plan to broadcast live the killing by platoon of Nidal Hasan aroused a wave of indignation and divisions within the US power Donald Trump sow the
Trump casts doubt on live broadcast of US military firing squad execution
US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Friday on whether authorities will live-stream the firing squad execution of the perpetrator of a deadly attack on American soldiers, a plan that has drawn broad and bipartisan condemnation. Nidal Hasan’s execution – scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 – is set to be the first by a US military firing squad since 1945. A Pentagon official said on Thursday tha…
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