The Pentagon confirmed Nidal Hasan’s Dec. 3 firing squad execution will be livestreamed, letting the public witness the military’s first execution in more than six decades after the Fort Hood massacre.
Fox News Digital reported the confirmation after a War Department official stated the Army will carry out the sentence in public view.
Hasan, a former Army major, remains on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The execution is set for Fort Hood, Texas, the same post where he murdered 13 people and wounded 32 others on Nov. 5, 2009.
He opened fire on unarmed soldiers and civilians after shouting “Allahu Akbar.” A military court convicted him in 2013 and sentenced him to death.
President Donald Trump approved use of an Army firing squad after War Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended it. If carried out, the sentence would mark the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the first by firing squad since 1945.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell had already framed the moment in plain terms on X.
Parnell wrote:
"Judgment day for Hasan has finally come."
A War Department official then locked in the livestream plan.
The official told Fox News Digital:
"It will be livestreamed. Details will follow."
Hasan has sat on death row for years while the families of the dead waited. The military will now return him to Fort Hood for the sentence itself.
Bret Baier reported the Pentagon announcement that the Dec. 3 firing squad would be shown live. Officials have not yet released the platform, start time, or access rules.
Those specifics remain pending. The core decision does not. The government will execute a convicted mass killer by firing squad and will let Americans watch.
Thirteen dead. Thirty-two wounded. A shout of “Allahu Akbar.” A 2013 death sentence. And now a date certain.
Justice delayed is still justice owed. The military is finally prepared to deliver it in full public view.
