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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the Trump administration's decision to livestream the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Mullin dismissed concerns regarding martyrdom and morality, stating that viewers are not required to watch. President Trump also commented on the execution method being a firing squad.
Outlets across the spectrum agree that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the administration's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution during an interview on Face the Nation.
Left-leaning outlets like The New Republic and Salon.com frame the livestreaming debate through historical comparisons to public executions and focus heavily on lawmakers' warnings regarding morality and martyrdom. Center outlets like The Hill and NewsNation report on Mullin's justification of American values and note Trump's comments on the firing squad. Right-leaning outlets like the Washington Examiner and The Daily Wire emphasize Mullin's rejection of martyrdom risks and argue for the public necessity of capital punishment.
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Mullin says livestreaming Hasan execution is part of ‘restoring American values’
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood behind the Trump administration’s decision to livestream the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, despite growing bipartisan criticism over the plan. In an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Mullin dismissed concerns coming from across party…
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Source context: Very early on the morning of August 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky, Rainey Bethea woke up for the last time. He was a young Black man—Wikipedia pegs his age at the time at 27, while another more authoritative-seeming source I read said he was 22—who had lost his mother and fath…
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Very early on the morning of August 14, 1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky, Rainey Bethea woke up for the last time. He was a young Black man—Wikipedia pegs his age at the time at 27, while another more authoritative-seeming source I read said he was 22—who had lost his mother and father while young and drifted into a life of itinerant labor and, eventually,…
DHS chief dismisses concerns about live-streaming a military execution as lawmakers warn of martyrdom and morality
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood behind the Trump administration’s decision to livestream the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, despite growing bipartisan criticism over the plan. In an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Mullin dismissed concerns coming from across party…
"It will be through firing squad,” Trump said.
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin rejected the idea that livestreaming the execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan could make him a martyr for his cause, saying those against the idea do not have to watch. Mullin told CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday that he sees no “elevated risk” of…
Capital punishment rarely makes the news for long. Until the last two weeks. Public controversies around the death penalty originally arose as a response to the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. In a column I wrote for National Review, I criticized the way that the modern state practices capital punishment — both in ...
