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Legal path seems narrow to challenge livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s execution, experts say
Lawmakers, religious leaders and rights groups say the broadcast would turn the first U.S. military firing-squad execution in decades into spectacle.
- On Thursday, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the execution of Army Major Nidal Hasan, scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will be livestreamed publicly to demonstrate "serious consequences."
- President Donald Trump authorized the firing squad execution on Monday for Hasan, who killed 13 people during a 2009 rampage at Fort Hood, marking the military's first firing squad use since World War II.
- Criticism mounted as Republican Senator Thom Tillis called the plan "beyond disgusting," while the National Association of Evangelicals warned that livestreaming risks turning a solemn responsibility into a public spectacle.
- The United Nations human rights office denounced the plan, stating that broadcasting a death is "tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture." Army regulations typically limit witnesses to specific individuals.
- FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said he would defer to the Pentagon on broadcast airings. Republican Senator John Curtis warned that cultivating an appetite for such spectacles erodes civilization, invoking Ancient Rome as a historical parallel.
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‘Defiantly Incompetent:’ Chuck Todd Unloads Venonmous, Icy Takedown of Pete Hegseth Over Live Execution Plan
Journalist Chuck Todd shredded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. The post ‘Defiantly Incompetent:’ Chuck Todd Unloads Venonmous, Icy Takedown of Pete Hegseth Over Live Execution Plan first appeared on Mediaite.
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Defense Minister Pete Hegseth shames the United States.
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