What changed in this update
The Pentagon said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out the deadliest mass shooting at an American military base, would be executed by firing squad.
Event intelligence
Planned military execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
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Current state
Nidal Malik Hasan remains scheduled for execution by U.S. Army firing squad on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, but President Trump cancelled plans to livestream the execution; only immediate families of the victims will witness it.
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In this event Pentagon says Trump and Hegseth ‘completely aligned’ on decision to cancel livestream of firing squad execution – live Pope says death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as US plans to livestream execution Fort Hood survivors speak out on Pentagon's decision to livestream Hasan's execution ‘Medieval’ and ‘disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
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NYTimes – US NYT
Trump Orders Execution of Gunman in 2009 Attack at Fort Hood
The Pentagon said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out the deadliest mass shooting at an American military base, would be executed by firing squad.
NYTimes – US NYT
Army Sets Date for First Military Execution by Firing Squad Since 1945
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, will be shot to death on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 and wounded 32 in 2009.
NPR – Politics NPR
Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
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NPR
Trump approves execution by firing squad for 2009 Fort Hood shooter
CBS
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed Dec. 3, email states
Nidal Hasan is set to die by firing squad in what will be the first military execution since 1961.
NPR
Trump says Fort Hood shooter can be executed by firing squad
The last time the U.S. military held an execution was in 1961, by hanging. The last military execution by firing squad was in 1945, when an American soldier was shot for desertion in World War II.
Al Jazeera
Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad: All to know
The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an execution in decades.
Al Jazeera
Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan
Pentagon confirms execution order for Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 in Fort Hood shooting in 2009.
BBC News – World BBC
Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad, in first since World War Two
The execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be the first military execution since 1961 and the first by firing squad since the end of World War Two.
Guardian
Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says
Nidal Hasan sentenced to death by military jury in 2013 for carrying out deadly shooting attack at army base in Texas Donald Trump has approved the execution by US army firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a social media post. Hasan, who was an army psychiatrist, would become first US soldier to be execu…
France 24
Trump approves firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
President Donald Trump approved a firing-squad execution on Monday for Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Hasan's execution will be the first carried out by the US military since 1961, with the date and location yet to be set by the Army.
CBS
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed by firing squad, Pentagon says
The Trump administration has approved a plan to execute former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan — who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood — by firing squad, the Pentagon said.
ABC News
Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth recommended the execution and it was approved by President Donald Trump.
