Trump sends mixed signals on livestreaming Hasan execution
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the execution would be public, while Trump says he has not decided whether to allow a livestream.
- On Saturday, World Day Against the Death Penalty, Pope Leo XIV declared capital punishment "inadmissible," stating it attacks human dignity and justice can be safeguarded without recourse to execution.
- The announcement follows the Pentagon's Thursday statement regarding the December 3, 2026, execution of Army Major Nidal Hasan, convicted of murdering 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009.
- Earlier on Friday, Cardinal Parolin denounced the planned livestream as "unacceptable," while Archbishop Paul Coakley, President of the United States Conference, and Catholic Bishops expressed "shock and great sorrow."
- Vice President Vance, who identifies as Catholic, expressed skepticism on Friday about the execution proceeding, noting he would not watch the broadcast if livestreamed.
- These debates coincide with administration efforts to accelerate capital punishment, including pledges made in Alabama, while the Pope's stance aligns with the 2018 revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church defining the death penalty as inadmissible.
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Trump Denies Role in Plan to Livestream Execution
“President Trump said he wasn’t involved in the plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, while stressing that he understands the decision to make an ‘example’ of him,” the New York Post reports. Said Trump: “They want to do that because they want to set an example. I […]
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is attentive to the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be protected and the requirements of justice can be safeguarded without resorting to the death penalty: effective detention systems have been developed, which protect the citizens, but at the same time they do not remove completely from the guilty [...] The article Stream execution, Pope Leo against Trump: "Pena di morte …
The intervention precisely during the hours in which we discuss the announcement of the public shooting of Nidal Hasan, the murderer of Fort Hood. The death penalty, according to the Pontiff, "beware of the inviolability and dignity of the person"
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