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President Donald Trump announced that the scheduled firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed. The decision reverses a previous proposal by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to broadcast the event. Hasan will still be executed by firing squad, but witnesses will be limited to immediate families of the victims.
Outlets across the political spectrum agree that President Trump reversed the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan following widespread backlash.
Left-leaning outlets like The Guardian and The New Republic highlighted the intense bipartisan criticism and explored the religious or reality-TV implications of the initial livestream proposal. Center outlets such as Roll Call and The Wall Street Journal emphasized the relief expressed by members of Congress and retired generals over the reversal. Right-leaning outlets like Blaze Media and Fox News noted the cancellation while highlighting expressions of gratitude from various groups regarding the decision.
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News Wrap: Trump says Fort Hood shooter's execution will not be livestreamed
In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump canceled plans to livestream the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, federal law enforcement agencies are investigating a series of letters containing what they're calling "suspicious substances" that were sent to congressional and state election officials and police report multiple victims in a…
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Source context: The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
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President Trump said in a Thursday Truth Social post the execution of the convicted Fort Hood shooter by firing squad will not be live-streamed.The big picture: The president's post walks back an idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pitched last week, setting off an avalanche of bipartisan condemnation.Driving the news: "He will die, as scheduled, by…
President Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hassan. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die,…
Leader of CREC church – whose pastors have advocated death penalty – says he ‘prefers public executions to private’Donald Trump announced Thursday he was cancelling Pete Hegseth’s recently announced plans to livestream a military execution – because “many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die”. But there were some fans of…
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 said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
Polling released before the announcement found only 18 percent of Americans support the livestreaming idea.
Trump is fine with a military execution by firing squad, just not with putting it on YouTube
Trump's announcement follows a wave of bipartisan backlash.
President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that the government will no longer livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. The firing squad killing, scheduled for December 3, will be the first such execution carried out by the military since 1945. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent…
President Donald Trump has canceled plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter amid intense backlash. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for TODAY.
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In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump canceled plans to livestream the December execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, federal law enforcement agencies are investigating a series of letters containing what they're calling "suspicious substances" that were sent to congressional and state election officials and police report multiple victims in a…
Members of Congress expressed relief Thursday after President Donald Trump overturned a Pentagon plan to livestream the execution of a man convicted of a deadly 2009 shooting spree at a Texas Army base. On Oct. 8, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a broadcast interview, announced the department’s plan to air the Dec. 3 execution by…
President Trump put an abrupt end on Thursday to questions about whether the Pentagon would really livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. In a Truth Social post, he said the public execution could serve as a deterrent but didn’t want to subject “good and well-meaning”…
Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.
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.
"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Hasan "will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," Trump wrote.
The president reversed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision after a backlash.
President Donald Trump rejected plans to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, overruling Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s proposal after facing intense bipartisan backlash.
Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, murdered 13 people and injured more than 32 others in the mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas in November 2009.
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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…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan via firing squad will not be livestreamed. “Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor, is a very bad and evil man, who killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, who died, along with her unborn son, and injured,…
The Trump administration's plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan ran afoul of a deep-rooted aversion to bloody displays of state power going back to the colonial era.
Trump canceled the Nidal Hasan firing squad execution livestream, but victims' families will still be able to witness the Fort Hood shooter's scheduled death.
To stream or not to stream… that was the question that has not been fully answered in the execution of a terrorist until today. Secretary of War…
Seven days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans for Nidal Hasan's public execution, the president changed direction.
The Fort Hood shooter deserves his fate, but there is a difference between carrying out an execution and livestreaming one.
But says it 'may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims'
‘Will die, as scheduled, by firing squad’
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