Trump Cancels Planned Execution Livestream of Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood Shooter
The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

President Trump on Wednesday said he was canceling the livestream of the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who killed 13 people in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be livestreamed, a decision that had come under substantial criticism, including from GOP…
The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
Man convicted of killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas will still be executed, but president said ‘people would rather not watch him die’Donald Trump has shelved a widely condemned plan to livestream the execution of a disabled man by firing squad.The US president confirmed the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military…
Trump said the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan won’t be livestreamed — contradicting an announcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The president reversed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision after backlash.
Hasan "will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," Trump wrote.
President Donald Trump reversed the Pentagon's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution, saying the event could deter terrorism but many Americans would rather not watch.
But says it 'may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims'
Hasan murdered 13 people and injured more than 32 others in the mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.