After more than 80 years, the United States will host a military execution by firing squad. Even live streaming. This was announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The person sentenced to death is Nidal Malik Hasan, a former army major who killed 13 soldiers inside the Fort Hood base in Texas on November 5, 2009.
Hegseth’s announcement
“He will have a firing squad by a platoon of soldiers. As it should be.” So Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the conservative television station Real America’s Voice News speaking from the USS Abraham Lincoln. “We’re going to make sure that people can watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there are serious consequences for these types of things,” he added as he announced the livestream of the event.
🚨 WOW! SecWar Pete Hegseth just announced the firing squad execution of Fort Hood Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan will be **PUBLIC**
At the SAME time and place where Hasan carried out the attack.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things!”
“He’s gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be.”
@JackPosobiec: Did he make any final requests?
HEGSETH: “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd.” 🥶
Hasan m*rdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009 while yelling “Allahu Akbar” and wounded more than 30 others
He was sentenced to death in 2013 and then sat on death row for over a DECADE. The Acting Sec. of the Army made it official
The victims’ families finally get JUSTICE 🙏🏻
Our SecWar is stone COLD when it comes to traitors like this who take American lives.
@RealAmVoice
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 8, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan will be executed on December 3 at Fort Hood. The last US military execution occurred on April 13, 1961. In that case Private John Bennett was executed by hanging after he was convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl and attempting to kill her. Instead, you have to go back to 1945 to find the last US military execution by firing squad. Eddie Slovik was killed in France for desertion.
The Fort Hood massacre
In just ten minutes Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 army soldiers and wounded 32. Hasan was still a major and army doctor when he went into action. A US citizen of Palestinian origin, Nidal became radicalized over time. Before the massacre he had also received a transfer order: the army was ready to deploy him abroad. But on November 5, 2009, Hasan entered a room on the Fort Hood base in Texas and opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol. According to some testimonies from the time, he also shouted “Allahu akbar (God is great, ed.)”.
The army major was arrested shortly thereafter. The court-martial trial began in August 2013. During the proceedings the former soldier admitted his guilt.
The UN high commissioner: “It’s torture”
For the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Washington’s choice is equivalent to a form of torture. “As the High Commissioner underlined in response to public executions in Afghanistan and Iran, public executions constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” the UN High Commissioner’s office said in a message to Agence France-Press. “Live streaming an execution is equivalent to a public execution and would violate the absolute ban on torture,” he reiterated.