Donald Trump expresses understanding for live broadcast of execution

US President Donald says he was not involved in the decision to live stream the execution of the Fort Hood attacker. “They want to do this because they want to make an example,” Trump says in a video that was distributed on X by the White House. "I wasn't involved in the decision, but I understand the decision." Trump himself had approved the execution.

At the beginning of December, an assassin sentenced to death is to be shot at the Fort Hood military base in the US state of Texas. The military psychiatrist at the time carried out a massacre on the base in 2009. He killed 13 people and injured 32 others. He was sentenced to death in 2013.

The execution will be broadcast live, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on X. They will ensure that people can publicly observe the execution of Nidal Hasan, he told the right-wing conservative US broadcaster Real America's Voice. »People must understand that such actions have serious consequences.ʿ

Vice President Vance: "Won't watch it"

However, the decision to transfer the execution does not appear to be completely final. The AFP news agency reports that Trump himself has put the livestream plans into perspective. "You make a decision to do it, but he gets killed," Trump said in front of the White House. “I really don’t care how he goes, as long as he goes.”

US Vice President JD Vance also expressed doubts about the plan. He said he doesn't know whether it will actually happen. We have to wait and see what happens in December. But: "If it's livestreamed, I won't watch it." Regardless of the controversy surrounding the broadcast of the execution, it should not be forgotten that Hasan brutally murdered many innocent people, said Vance.

The killing of Hasan by soldiers with rifles is scheduled for December 3rd. Public shootings were used as a deterrent in the United States, including during the Civil War in the 19th century. The last generally public execution took place in 1936.