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JD Vance expresses doubt about livestreaming Fort Hood shooter execution, says he wouldn't watch
Thom Tillis and other critics denounced the plan as beyond disgusting, while officials said Hasan’s firing-squad execution would be the first by the U.S. military since 1961.
- Vice President JD Vance explicitly distanced himself from the Defense Department's proposal to publicly broadcast the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, stating during a campaign appearance in Lima, Ohio, that he has serious doubts about the plan and will personally refuse to watch.
- The internal policy rift follows formal confirmation from the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the military intends to carry out Hasan's death sentence by firing squad on December 3 at Fort Cavazos , with the execution set to be live-streamed as part of a public "lethality" push.
- Hasan—A former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others during the 2009 mass shooting—was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013 and has exhausted his standard appeals, positioning him to potentially become the first person executed by the U.S. military since 1961.
- Legal scholars, human rights advocates, and death penalty experts condemned the livestream directive as an unprecedented government spectacle that threatens federal due process standards, while questioning whether civil court habeas corpus petitions could delay the December date past the midterm elections.
- The public pushback from Vance highlights a rare visible divide within the administration over the optics and legality of weaponizing government executions as public broadcasts, even as Hegseth insists the transparency will serve as a public deterrent.
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United States will have first public execution in 90 years The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, said on Friday (9) that he doesn't know if the live broadcast, planned by the Pentagon, of Nidal Hasan's firing. The former military killed 13 people at the military base in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. "I don't know if that's really going to happen," said Vance, adding that if the execution is broadcast it wouldn't go along. "I'm not goin…
·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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"I don't know if it's gonna happen. This man made the worst terrorist attack on American soil after 9/11. If it's gonna be broadcast live, I'm not gonna watch it." (ANSA)
·Rome, Italy
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