Trump approves firing-squad execution for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan
The former Army psychiatrist convicted of murdering 13 people in 2009 will face the first US military execution since 1961.
President Donald Trump has approved a firing-squad execution for Nidal Hasan, the former United States Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, which Trump approved on Monday, according to a statement from Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. The Army has yet to set a date or location for carrying out the sentence.
Hasan, who held the rank of Major, was sentenced to death following a court-martial that found him guilty of the attack at the Texas military base. If carried out, his execution will mark the first time the United States military has put a prisoner to death since 1961, underscoring the historic and rarely exercised nature of capital punishment within the armed forces.
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