Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event
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Summary
Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, said the execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be a public event. The execution by firing squad is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, and will be livestreamed.Key Facts
- Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and injured others at Fort Hood in 2009.
- Hasan is a former army psychiatrist and was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.
- He has been held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since his sentencing and finished all appeals last year.
- President Donald Trump approved the execution on a Pentagon recommendation.
- The execution will be carried out by a firing squad at Fort Hood on December 3, 1 p.m.
- This will be the first U.S. military execution in over 60 years.
- The execution will be livestreamed so the public can watch.
- Hasan had contacts with radical Islamist Anwar al-Awlaki before the attack.
- Initially, the shooting was called "workplace violence," affecting victims’ benefits, but later recognized as an attack.
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