The UN strongly opposed the broadcasting of the death penalty in the United States

The Pentagon is set to show live how Nidal Malik Hassan will be executed. He had previously served as a military psychiatrist and was found guilty of 13 deaths. The shooting is scheduled for December 3, 2026. The Guardian writes that this plan caused a wave of outrage.

Criticism was voiced at the UN, among politicians, clerics and human rights defenders. Opponents say the display of the death violates international rules and turns execution into a brutal sight.

The decision was approved by Donald Trump on the advice of Defense Minister Pete Hegset. Hegseth explained that the broadcast is needed so that society sees the inevitability of punishment for especially serious crimes. When asked about the last wishes of the convict, he replied that he did not care.

In November 2009, Hassan fired at Fort Hood in Texas. 13 people were killed and 32 others were injured. During his arrest, he was wounded, partially paralyzed and moved in a wheelchair. In 2013, a military court sentenced him to death. If executed, the U.S. military has not shot since 1945.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned that the public broadcast would be a public execution and would violate the current ban on torture, which allows for no exceptions. Hillary Clinton called the initiative barbaric, and Congresswoman Yasmin Ansari compared it to the practices of authoritarian regimes in Iran and Afghanistan. The initiative was negatively treated by both Republicans and Democrats. Republican Sen. Tom Tillis supports the death penalty, but the public display finds disgusting. Vice President JD Vance urged to remember the gravity of the crime, but to watch the broadcast is not going. U.S. Catholic bishops have urged authorities to revisit the issue.

For almost 9 decades in the United States executions are held closed, not letting outside spectators. Among the most recent cases widely recognized as a public execution is the 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea in Kentucky, followed by thousands of people. Eugene Fidell, a Yale military law expert, admits that Hassan's defense will sue the show. In this case, the date of execution may be postponed.

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