Trump Orders Firing Squad for Fort Hood Killer of 13, Reviving Military Execution After 65 Years
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Updated · Honolulu Star-Advertiser · Oct 6
Trump Orders Firing Squad for Fort Hood Killer of 13, Reviving Military Execution After 65 Years
3 articles · Updated · Honolulu Star-Advertiser · Oct 6
Summary
Trump approved execution by Army firing squad for former Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood gunman convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 in the 2009 attack.
Pete Hegseth recommended the method, and the Army secretary will now set the time and place; under military law, a court-martial death sentence cannot be carried out without presidential approval.
Hasan, 56, was sentenced to death in 2013 on 45 murder and attempted-murder counts after opening fire at a Texas base medical facility weeks before his planned deployment to Afghanistan.
The administration recently expanded federal execution options to include firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, citing persistent problems obtaining lethal-injection drugs and carrying out injections.
If carried out, Hasan's execution would be the first military execution since 1961; the last known U.S. military firing-squad execution was in 1945, according to death-penalty researchers.