United States: The execution of the author of a massacre on a military base will be broadcast live

Sentenced to death for killing 13 people on a US military base in 2009, Nidal Hasan is to be executed by firing squad. The American Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced that this killing would be public. It will mark the first execution carried out by the American army since 1961.

On November 5, 2009, Nidal Hasan, an American military psychiatrist of Palestinian origin and Muslim faith, opened fire in a medical center on the Fort Hood base, in Texas. Considered a lone wolf of the jihadist group Al-Qaeda, he killed 13 people, including 12 soldiers, and injured several dozen others. He intended to prevent soldiers from participating in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which he deemed “illegal”.

A “live broadcast”

In a video recorded Wednesday and broadcast Thursday on X by official accounts affiliated with the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth specified the terms of the execution. Nidal Hasan “will be shot by soldiers, as it should be, and we will make sure that the public can witness it, that it is public,” declared the head of the Pentagon.

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