Public execution plan brings the US closer to Iranian values, Guardian columnist argues
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US defense secretary Pete Hegseth plans to stage a public execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand there's serious consequences," Hegseth told the right-wing Real America's Voice network, envisioning a firing squad. The columnist argues this mirrors Iran's practice of public executions — recalling the 2005 hanging of convicted child killer Muhammad Bijeh from a crane in Pakdasht, near Tehran, which the author witnessed shortly after arriving as a Guardian correspondent.
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