US Bishops, 'streaming execution is barbaric'

“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.” Thus the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, commented to the Vatican media on the decision of the War Department in Washington to live stream the death sentence by firing squad of Nidal Hassan, the former army major convicted for the 2009 Fort Hood massacre.