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Outcry Grows over Plan to Livestream US Military Execution
The U.N. human-rights office said a public livestream would amount to torture, as the Army plans Hasan’s firing-squad execution and invites viewers online.
- 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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UN says US livestreaming Fort Hood shooter execution could violate torture prohibition
The United Nations has condemned US plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan. It said broadcasting the firing squad could amount to a public execution and breach the ban on torture.
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Several media, personalities and the United Nations have denounced the Pentagon's project to broadcast live the execution by platoon of Nidal Malik Hasan.
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