Trump approves firing squad execution for 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
President Donald Trump approved the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by U.S. Army firing squad, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said Monday. Parnell said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the method and Trump approved it. Hasan, a former Army major, was convicted of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.
Key facts
Parnell announced the decision in a post on the social platform X.610
Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.108
France 24 reported the execution would be the first carried out by the U.S. military since 1961, with the date and location yet to be set by the Army.8
NBC News reported it would be the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since World War II.9
The 2009 attack was described as the deadliest mass shooting at an American military base.1
How it was covered
- Left
- Left-leaning outlets described Hasan as a gunman or shooter and noted the method's historical rarity in military executions.
- Right
- Right-leaning outlets included terms such as terrorist and massacre, and used Hegseth's title of War Secretary.
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