‘Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3:’ Pentagon announces Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be livestreamed

The U.S. military is preparing to carry out its first execution in more than six decades. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will face a firing squad in December. The officials confirmed that the event will be livestreamed to the public, as per The Guardian.

During an interview with Real America’s Voice, Hegseth said the execution would take place at Fort Hood in Texas at 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 3. He also made it clear that the administration intends to make the event public, arguing that people should understand the consequences of such attacks.

Hasan opened fire at a medical processing center at Fort Hood in November 2009, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. A military jury sentenced him to death in 2013, and he has remained on death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas ever since. After Hasan ran out of appeals, President Trump approved a firing squad execution on Hegseth’s recommendation, according to another article by The Guardian.

It will be a public execution

“It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand there are serious consequences for these types of things,” he said. This will mark the first U.S. military execution in 60 years.

During his court-martial, Hasan said he wanted to prevent American soldiers from deploying to Afghanistan to kill fellow Muslims before his own deployment. Hegseth also criticized the way Obama’s administration handled the shooting. He claimed that former President Barack Obama had called it ‘workplace violence,’ rather than a terrorist attack. However, there is no record of Obama personally using that phrase.

The interviewer also asked Hegseth whether Hasan had made a final request or contacted Trump. Hegseth, who has been vocal about many controversial topics, responded with, “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3.” However, it might cost America its soul. Geoffrey Corn, a Texas Tech University law professor who served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, said that the plan to livestream the execution “raises significant moral questions, above and beyond the questions related to the death penalty generally,” as per CBS News.

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