Fort Hood shooter executed in public for first time in 90 years
On December 3, Fort Hood is executed by shooting former U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan, who killed 13 people in 2009. Execution to be broadcast live, Pentagon says
The execution of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be broadcast live, the Pentagon said, CBS News reported.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegset said Hassan's execution would be public.
“He’s going to be shot, and he should be,” Hegseth told Real America’s Voice. We will make sure that people can see it, that everything happens in public, because people need to understand that there are serious consequences for such things.
The execution is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood.
This week, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell reported in X that Hegseth had made a proposal for execution by firing squad and President Donald Trump had approved it.
It will be the first military execution since the end of World War II. In 1945, Private Eddie Slovik was executed after he appeared before a military tribunal on charges of desertion during World War II, NBC News reports. The last public execution in the United States apparently took place in 1936, when Rainey Bethea was hanged for rape in Kentucky, CBS News reported.
Hassan, a former major and psychiatrist, opened fire at Fort Hood military base on November 5, 2009, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others. In 2013, he was sentenced to death. After being wounded in the attack, Hassan was paralyzed below the waist.
