Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a bipartisan backlash over plans to televise the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Malik Hassan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a bipartisan backlash over plans to televise the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Malik Hassan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood.

It would be the first execution by the US military in six decades.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the program as a disrespectful public spectacle that could inspire terrorism.

Republican Sen. Tom Tillis said public executions are associated with oppressive regimes like Iran and Afghanistan and "should not be happening in America."

Source: POLITICO