Hegseth pledges public Hasan firing-squad execution

Oct 6

ABC airs a Jack Posobiec interview with Pete Hegseth recorded aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln late the previous day. Hegseth says Nidal Hasan will face a firing squad at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m., and pledges to let the public watch. Trevor Ault reports a Defense Department official confirming plans to livestream the execution on October 8. Hasan's attorney calls the pledge political theater and the comments irresponsible. Ault keeps the December execution conditional and says it would be the first public U.S. execution in about 90 years. The report describes a plan and public pledge, not a carried-out execution.

Democracy Now reports Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution scheduled for December 3, with Trump's approval of Hegseth's order as context. It describes a first-military-execution-since-1945 comparison, retained as that source's claim. ABC's later Hegseth interview describes the planned Fort Hood Thursday 1 p.m. execution and keeps its December occurrence conditional. This is the scheduling order, not the earlier approval announcement, public-access pledge or a completed execution. DD India's October 9 account also specifies the planned December 3 firing squad and distinguishes conviction/background from the prospective execution. Its historical comparison is specifically a first U.S. military firing-squad execution since 1945, rather than a new finding about all military execution methods. RTVE's October 9 account again gives Thursday December 3 at 1 p.m. and the Fort Hood firing-squad plan, with thirteen 2009 victims as background. Its introductory use of Malik and later use of Nidal remain in the source account rather than becoming a second prisoner or event. The scheduling order remains October 6 and the execution future.