The United States plans to live stream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, responsible for the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, drawing criticism from the United Nations, which calls it equivalent to torture, and negative reactions from US bishops and the Vatican, while the Italian government opposes the death penalty.
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Nidal Hasan is the former US Army major responsible for the massacre at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, in which he killed 13 people and injured 32. He was sentenced to death and the United States is preparing to carry out the sentence by firing squad, with live streaming, something that has not happened for 90 years.
The execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood military base massacre and responsible for killing 13 people and wounding 32 others, will be live streamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed this. Nidal Hasan "will face a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we will make sure that people can witness it, that it will be public because people must understand that there are serious consequences for this type of thing", he highlighted. The news was anticipated by the American media based on what a Pentagon official said: "It will be broadcast live, details will follow." The firing squad will be deployed on December 3 against the former US Army major. The United States has not conducted a public execution in 90 years. US Vice President JD Vance said he would "not watch" the execution if it was live-streamed. "We are evaluating the matter," Donald Trump said instead. "In any case he will be killed by firing squad, I don't care how he dies but he will die", he added, specifying however that he "absolutely" approves the broadcast of the execution.
UN: "Live execution equals torture"
According to the United Nations, the decision by US authorities to live stream the execution amounted to torture. “Live streaming of an execution amounts to a public execution and would violate the absolute prohibition on torture,” the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a message sent to AFP. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he was "against the death penalty and Italy is a leading country for the moratorium. We are doing it at the UN and I believe that the death penalty should be banned".
The US bishops: "Barbarism". Parolin: "Unacceptable"
Harsh reaction also from the American bishops. “Our God is the God of life: in no way can Hassan's actions be justified but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” said the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin defined the spectacularization of death as "unacceptable, even though the person is naturally guilty, but there are other systems, it is incomprehensible". Then he added: "The thought of the Church is in total opposition to the death penalty."
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The United Nations will adopt a resolution or official statement condemning the US decision to live stream the execution.
Likely · Within weeks
The debate over the death penalty in the United States will intensify, with possible legislative initiatives in some states to limit or abolish its use.
Possible · Within months

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