Vance Questions Pentagon Plan to Livestream Hasan Execution for Killer of 13
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Updated · WPVI-TV · Oct 9
Vance Questions Pentagon Plan to Livestream Hasan Execution for Killer of 13
3 articles · Updated · WPVI-TV · Oct 9
Summary
JD Vance said he does not know whether the Pentagon will actually livestream Nidal Malik Hasan’s December execution, despite the department confirming the plan a day earlier.
Hasan was convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood attack that killed 13 people and wounded 32, and Vance said the dispute over the execution method should not overshadow those crimes.
Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the livestream decision a "barbaric promotion of a culture of death" and urged the government to reverse it.
Donald Trump, who approved Hasan’s firing-squad execution, said Hasan "deserves" the death penalty; the military has not executed a service member by firing squad since World War II.