Public execution of a detainee in the United States: despite outrage, an American minister says he sees no “increased risk”

The US Minister of Homeland Security said on Sunday that he saw no "increased risk" in the event that the execution of the author of a deadly attack against US soldiers was broadcast publicly, an eventuality which sparked a wave of indignation in the United States and beyond. “I absolutely don't see any increased risk at this point because of this,” said Markwayne Mullin, asked by a CBS journalist about the risks of radicalization or transforming the author of the killing into a martyr that such a live broadcast would cause.

Nidal Hasan, 56, is to be shot on December 3 on the Fort Hood base in Texas (south), where he killed 13 people, including 12 soldiers, and injured more than 30 others on November 5, 2009, an attack inspired by the jihadist organization al-Qaeda. The announcement of the live broadcast of the execution by Defense Minister Pete Hegseth caused a wave of indignation in the political class, including in the Republican camp of President Donald Trump. The American president, however, affirmed on Saturday that the decision concerning this broadcast had not been made.

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Asked about it, Markwayne Mullin noted that “no one has to watch it if they don’t want to.” The American president “is leading this country with a very, very, very firm, direct and straightforward hand, and he is restoring American values ​​and bringing us back to where America should be,” Mr. Mullin said again in justification of the death by military firing squad.