Trump says he will ‘ultimately make decision’ on Fort Hood shooter execution livestream
Trump said he will decide whether to broadcast the firing-squad execution, a plan that has drawn bipartisan criticism and support from some allies.
- President Donald Trump said Saturday he hasn't made a final decision on livestreaming the December execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the military would livestream the execution, triggering immediate skepticism from lawmakers and officials concerned about the decision.
- The former Army Maj. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and trying to kill 32 others during his 2009 rampage at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, then sentenced to death in 2013.
- Republican lawmakers, including Rep Austin Scott, R-Ga, and Rep Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa, criticized the plan as turning an execution into 'entertainment,' while Vice President Vance said he would not watch.
- Such an execution would mark the first United States military execution since 1961 and the first by firing squad since 1945, raising questions about deterrence versus spectacle.
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Trump says he will ‘ultimately make decision’ on Fort Hood shooter execution livestream
President Trump said he will “make a decision ultimately” on whether to livestream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan following GOP backlash. “He’s a vicious killer, killed 13 people in cold blood, wounded over 20. Some of those people will never have their lives back in a true sense,” Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn on Saturday. “He was vicious. He was violent.”
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