UN comments on public execution of Fort Hood attacker in the US as "disgusting"

UN Secretary General Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric spoke at the daily press conference.

Asked about the public execution of an American soldier named Nidal Hasan, who carried out an attack on Fort Hood Base in the USA, Dujarric said, "It is frankly disgusting that the government publicly executes someone on live broadcast, in front of live cameras." he said.

"Such public executions, which we have seen in other countries such as Iran or Afghanistan, constitute a cruel, inhumane or degrading form of treatment or punishment," Dujarric said. he said.

Referring to the statements of the UN Human Rights Office on this issue, Dujarric said that live broadcasting of the execution could be a violation of the prohibition of torture.

Debate that Fort Hood shooter's execution will be held "in public"

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the public could watch the execution by firing squad of American soldier Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Base in Texas in 2009.

"We're going to make sure people can watch it. It's going to be public. Because people need to understand that these things have serious consequences," Hegseth said. He used the following expressions.

The last public execution in the United States was in 1936, when Rainey Bethea, a black man convicted of raping a white woman, was hanged in Kentucky.

Hasan, a former army psychiatrist who is expected to be executed on December 3, carried out the attack at Fort Hood in Texas in November 2009, killing 13 people and injuring 32 people, and Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury for the attack.