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BackTrump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

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US President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, marking the first US military execution since 1961.

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Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, carried out a shooting attack at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than two dozen. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the attack.

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US President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Hasan’s execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas – which also wounded more than two dozen people – will be the first carried out by the US military since 1961.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth “has recommended – and President Donald J. Trump has approved – death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a post on X.

“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote.

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  • The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place for Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad.

    Very likely · Within weeks

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  • When and where will the execution take place?
  • What legal challenges might delay or prevent the execution?
  • How will the military carry out the firing squad procedure?

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