Trump signed the order to shoot an American soldier

ABC News has announced that US President Donald Trump has signed a US soldier's death sentence by firing squad.

According to IRNA, the US Department of War (Pentagon) announced Monday local time that Nidal Hassan, a US Army major and psychiatrist who was sentenced to death for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be executed by firing squad. It will be the first execution by the US military in more than 60 years.

Irna Jahan