Trump approves execution of Ford Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

US President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who attacked the Ford Hood military base in Texas in 2009, killing 13 people and wounding 32 others.

Hasan's execution by firing squad will be a first in 65 years for the United States, which has not used this method since 1961.

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Parnell said, "The time and place of execution will be determined by the Secretary of the US Army. The day of reckoning has finally come for Hasan." he said.

Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out the attack on Ford Hood Base inspired by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.

Hasan, who preferred to defend himself at the hearing but neither testified nor called witnesses, did not even object to the accusations. Court-appointed defense lawyers had raised concerns that Hasan intended to be executed.

In the attack carried out by US-born Palestinian origin Nidal Malik Hasan on a medical facility on the base on November 5, 2009, 12 of the 13 people killed and 30 of the 32 injured were soldiers. Hasan, who was shot by a plainclothes police officer during the attack, was left partially paralyzed.

It was stated in court that Hasan opposed the US occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and that he met online with Al-Qaeda Anwar al-Awlaki, who was later killed in a US drone attack in Yemen.