Execution in Texas: Trump: Was not involved in livestream decision

According to US media, it would be the first military execution in the USA in more than 60 years - and it will be broadcast via live stream. The latter was probably not Trump's decision.

President Trump approved the execution, but said he had nothing to do with the decision to livestream it. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/dpa

Syracuse. US President Donald Trump says he was not involved in the decision to live stream the military execution planned for December in Texas. “They want to do this because they want to make an example,” Trump said in a video distributed by the White House on the sidelines of a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York. “I wasn’t involved in the decision, but I understand the decision.”

Trump added: "I assume they want it to serve as an example, and I can understand that very well." He had previously confirmed that he had approved the execution.

On December 3rd, a condemned assassin is to be shot at the Fort Hood military base in the US state of Texas. 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 need to understand that such acts have serious consequences.”

Such a process - especially broadcast via livestream - raises many questions, such as whether there will be access restrictions to prevent children, for example, from watching the execution. The then military psychiatrist Hasan killed 13 people and injured 32 on the base in 2009.

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