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US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was cancelling plans to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base shooter – a project that had sparked outrage in the United States. Nidal Hasan is scheduled to be executed on December 3 at Fort Hood in Texas, where he killed 13 people in 2009.
US president reverses Pentagon's plan to publicly stream execution of Nidal Malik Hasan after outcry.
Trump said the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan can be viewed in person by families of the victims if they wish. The decision comes after bipartisan backlash regarding the Pentagon's plans to livestream the execution.
Trump said some would "rather not watch" the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.
The Pentagon said the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be public and livestreamed.
Alonzo Lunsford says the punishment is in line with the crime, but he has doubts as to whether the shooting should be broadcast live.
Rights groups and legal experts say the move could endanger minors, who are usually barred from witnessing executions.
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Alonzo Lunsford tells the BBC the punishment befits the crime but he has some doubts whether the public should be able to watch it.
US Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth had said that Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad and that it would be done "in public." Hasan's execution will be the first by the US military since 1961.
Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the shooting at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, is due to be killed by firing squad on 3 December. A Pentagon official said on Thursday night that the execution would be broadcast live, while Defence Minister Pete Hegseth assured earlier that it would be public.
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
The Pentagon said on Thursday the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan would be livestreamed on December 3 after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed to make the execution "public". Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 in a 2009 shooting at the Texas military base. The UN on Friday condemned the decision as "torture".
The US Army is averse to capital punishment and has not carried out an execution in decades.
Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 unarmed soldiers and injured another 32 in the deadliest ever non-combat attack on an American military base.
Donald Trump agreed on Monday that Nidal Malik Hasan, a former US military psychiatrist who had killed 13 people on the Texas base in Fort Hood in 2009 to protest the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be killed by firing squad.
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