In an unprecedented move, the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nadal Malik Hassan will be livestreamed.
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Sean Parnell, Chief Spokesman for the Pentagon, announced the plans for the execution to be livestreamed in a statement on Thursday (October 9). He confirmed that United States President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are both on board with the move. He said that "judgment day" has finally come for the mass shooter.
Fort Hood Shooter's Execution to Be Livestreamed
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Parnell said in a statement on Thursday caught by the Military Times.
Hassan was the mastermind who spearheaded the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting. A mass shooting that was carried out at the Fort Hood military post near Killeen, Texas. The shooting left 13 people dead and more than 30 others wounded.
So, naturally, the Pentagon's announcement led to a lot of mixed reactions on social media.
"We can all agree this PoS should be executed... But live-streaming an execution seems like a terrible idea," one user wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"He is a vicious bigot and a murderer, and there's an argument he deserves a public death for a very public crime. Yet there is a part of me that feels that public executions are barbaric and stoke the public's bloodlust," a second user chimed in.
"Bringing back public execution is good for society. It creates deterrence. Need to be 100% guilty with undeniable evidence," a third user remarked.
The Fort Hood shooter will be executed by way of a firing squad. A group of military personnel will simultaneously shoot and kill Hassan for his role in the 2009 killing spree.
It is unclear if he will try to appeal the decision. Stay tuned for more updates.
How is this murderer going to pay the victims family 5 million dollars while serving so many life sentences? Asking for a friend.
They'll likely get what they can from liquidating his assets, which I can't imagine at 21 he had much. Whatever they can get will be split however it was decided in court but I doubt most of them will get much. If some random, misguided relative left him money in the future that would also go towards paying the victims.
He should go straight to death penalty!
The scumbag will spend the rest of his life in a Texas prison. He might end up wishing for death. And the wishes of the victims' families should matter.
In a Texas Prison and he killed all those people because of the "invasion of Mexican people".....Oh yeah....this guy will die.
Its going to be a very bad day for him. ?