Trump approves firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
The decision could make Hasan the first U.S. military prisoner executed in more than 60 years after his 2013 death sentence was upheld on appeal.
- On Monday, the Pentagon announced that President Trump approved the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad, following a recommendation by Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- In 2009, Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, killing 13 people and wounding 32; a military jury convicted him of premeditated murder in 2013.
- If carried out, Hasan would be the first military member executed since 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged, as firing-squad executions remain rare in the United States.
- Pentagon spokesman Parnell confirmed that "The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution," following Hasan's exhaustion of appeals in 2025.
- Hasan has been held at the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since his 2013 conviction, marking the first military execution in over 60 years.
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After an amok run at Fort Hood, Texas, Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced to death and is now to be executed.
U.S. President Trump ordered the first execution by the U.S. military since 1961. In 2009, the gunman killed 13 people at an army base.
On Monday, October 5, Donald Trump approved the execution platoon killing of the author of a killing at the military base in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people, including 12 soldiers, and injured more than 30 people. - A first in 65 years: Trump authorizes the army to kill the author of the killing of Fort Hood (International) by execution platoon.
In November 2009, a major of the U.S. Army opened fire on soldiers and civilians in the Fort Hood military base. 13 people died, 31 were injured. Now the Islamist assassin is said to die.
US President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of former US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, sentenced to death for the 2009 attack on the Fort Hood military base in Texas. If the execution is carried out, it will be the first military execution in the US since 1961 and the first by firing squad since 1945. The decision was proposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while the Pentagon is now responsible for determining the ne…
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