Trump approves firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
The decision could make Hasan the first U.S. military prisoner executed in more than 60 years after his 2013 death sentence was upheld on appeal.
- On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that President Donald Trump approved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recommendation to execute Nidal Malik Hasan by U.S. Army firing squad.
- Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, opened fire at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Processing Center on November 5, 2009, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others; a military jury convicted him of premeditated murder in 2013.
- This execution would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961, when Pvt. John Bennett was hanged, and the first firing-squad execution since World War II in 1945.
- Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle will determine the time and place for the execution, though habeas corpus appeals in federal court could delay the process for years, according to legal experts.
- The administration's move follows a botched lethal injection in Tennessee last week involving inmate Christa Pike, which prompted Governor Bill Lee to halt state executions and order an independent review.
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Trump approved Pete Hegseth’s recommendation to execute Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad, reviving a method of military execution not used in decades.
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In 2013, Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death after the massacre at a military base in Texas in 2009. Now, US President Donald Trump has approved his execution by firing squad, the Pentagon says.
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Firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan scheduled for December
WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting secretary of the U.S. Army said Tuesday that the man convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3.
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The Pentagon says President Donald Trump has signed off on a plan to execute Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Hasan has been on military death row for years after being found guilty of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others during the attack in Texas. Defense […]
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