Public execution of former army doctor by firing squad in America

Public execution of former army doctor by firing squad in America

The execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army doctor who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood base in Texas, will be broadcast live, according to US Defense Secretary Pete Heggest.

This sentence is carried out by the fire brigade and in public. The execution of the former US Army psychotherapist is scheduled for December 3; The sentence, if carried out, would be the first US military execution since 1961 and the first execution by firing squad in the country's military since World War II.

On Wednesday, October 7, in a video posted on the Pentagon's official accounts on the social network X (formerly Twitter), the US Secretary of Defense said of Hassan's execution: "He should be executed by firing squad, properly, and we'll make sure people can watch it; it will be a public execution."