The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
Mr. When asked if Hasan had made any final requests or reached out to the Trump administration, Hegseth simply replied: “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd. Mr.
Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday (October 7, 2026), said the execution of Hasan will take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. The last military execution took place on April 13, 1961, when Army Private John Bennett was executed by hanging.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Mr. Hegseth said. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell had said Monday that President Donald Trump had approved the execution of Hasan. Hegseth said the military hasn’t executed a servicemember by firing squad since World War II.
