But says it 'may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims'
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…
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 overruled his defense secretary today, halting Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports.
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 reversed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision after backlash.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will not live-stream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. The decision came after days of speculation on whether the administration would follow through on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the execution would be live-streamed. Trump said that…
Livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it," 72 former officers said in a letter.
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‘Will die, as scheduled, by firing squad’
The president says the execution of the Fort Hood terrorist attacker will not be public after all.War Secretary Pete Hegseth had recommended the public execution by military firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the admitted terrorist killer of 13 people plus an unborn baby in the Nov. 2009 shooting near Killeen, Texas. The execution is scheduled for December 3.'He…
