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Nidal Hasan: Criticism of the Pentagon for decision to transmit its firing

The former Major of the Nidal Hasan Army, sentenced to death for murdering 13 people in an attack at the Fort Hood base, Texas, in 2009, will be the first military to be executed by a firing squad since World War II. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that the execution, scheduled for December 3, will be public, and a Pentagon official confirmed that it will be broadcast live. Hegseth's decision has already aroused criticism.

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Straight to... Washington and criticism of the decision to retransmit the Hasan shooting

In 2009, Nidal Hasan, a former United States Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 and will be the first person executed by a U.S. Armed Forces firing squad since 1945. The controversy now revolves around the Pentagon's decision to live broadcast its execution. To expand the issue, we talk to our correspondent in Washington, Carolina Valladares.

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US to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon official says

The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution on December 3 of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move. Hasan, a former ​Army psychiatrist, is ‌set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945.

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