Trump undecided on livestreaming execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he has yet to decide whether the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, will be livestreamed, despite the Pentagon announcing it would do so a day earlier. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be public because "people need to understand that there's serious consequence" for such crimes. Hasan, a 56-year-old former Army psychiatrist who murdered 13 people and injured 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, is paralyzed from the waist down and is being held on death row in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with his execution by firing squad slated for December 3. Trump said Hasan "absolutely" deserves the death penalty; both Republicans and Democrats have criticized the livestream plan, and Vice President JD Vance also said he does not know if it "is actually going to happen."
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