Pentagon to publicly livestream Fort Hood shooter’s execution by firing squad.TA
The shooter, who killed 13, will have his execution live streamed for the public to see, according to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Nidal Malik Hasan’s execution will be live streamed (Image: AFP/Getty)
The public will be able to watch the execution of the Fort Hood shooter, who killed 13 people, in a live stream, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed.
The Pentagon said the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will take place at Fort Hood on December 3, with Hegseth saying the execution will be “public”.
Hegseth, told the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday: “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public.”
Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring a further 32 in a shooting at the military base in 2009.
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The Defence Secretary spoke to the outlet aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier while visiting the long-deployed crew, who supported the Iran war, before their arrival at their home port in San Diego.
When prompted whether Hasan had made any final requests or reached out to the Trump administration, Hegseth simply replied: “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd.”
Officials in the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution will be live streamed and more details are to follow.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell had said Monday that President Donald Trump had approved the execution of Hasan.
The White House on Thursday immediately referred questions about the plans for the livestreamed execution to the Pentagon.
Retired Staff Sgt, Alonzo Lunsford told America’s Newsroom he will be watching the execution of the officer who shot at him 15 years ago.
Lunsford said: “You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
“And the way that he went about doing his deed was a coward’s way because we didn’t have any way to defend ourselves that day.”
The deadly attack took place at Fort Hood military base (Image: Getty)
Lunsford suffered from several gunshot wounds, including one in the head.
He thinks watching the execution could help bring together survivors and grieving families.
He said: “It’s for two reasons. One is to give the families of the deceased a chance to close a chapter and also the survivors to close a chapter,” Lunsford said of the execution.
“And it sends a clear message that we will not stand for this activity in any of our armed services or in the United States.”
The military has not executed a service member by firing squad since World War II.
The last military execution took place on April 13, 1961, when Army Private John Bennett was executed by hanging.
Andy Burnham is accused of inciting disorder after a record 781 migrants crossed the Channel in one day, while Reform UK warns numbers are accelerating.
Andy Burnham accused of ‘inciting disorder’ over migrant crisis (Image: Getty)
Andy Burnham has been accused of inciting disorder across the country because of the way his Government is handling the migration crisis.
It comes after his administration suffered its worst day on record, with 781 illegal migrants breaking into the country in unlawful Channel crossings in a single day.
The record-breaking influx also saw two boats arrive on UK shores undetected, sparking fury in Westminster and triggering threats of protests at migrant sites.
Horrendous footage and pictures, seen in Thursday’s Daily Express, also show what appears to be a man abandoning a child in the water so he can climb aboard a crowded dinghy.
Reform UK’s Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf warned that numbers were “accelerating” despite Home Office claims that the overall total had reduced.
He told Good Morning Britain that the UK has had “north of 210,000 people turn up on our beaches illegally in the past eight years” and warned “people’s lives are being turned upside down”.
Those comments were in relation to the village of Piddington, which recently hosted a symbolic referendum to leave the UK in protest against the housing of migrants at a nearby base.
Mr Yusuf said residents “are terrified that they are about to be outnumbered 10 to 1 by illegal migrant men”.
Home Office data shows a decline in the number of crossings this year, but critics say the overall figure remains far too high, with an insufficient number of people being sent back to their countries of origin.
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf accuses Andy Burnham of inciting disorder (Image: Getty)
In a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, Mr Yusuf said: “Andy Burnham is inciting disorder in Britain by wielding the state’s monopoly on violence to impose unvetted men from countries like Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea into local communities.”
He added: “This is unprecedented. I am worried the country is heading to a dark place.”
His remarks refer to footage showing coaches used to transfer migrants from the coast to immigration centres being accompanied by a police escort.
There have been mounting protests by masked men near locations used to hold migrants, though police support for security reasons is not uncommon.
