Death penalty to be broadcast live in the US: Former major who killed 13 people to be executed

Death penalty to be broadcast live in the US: former major who killed 13 people to be executed

On October 8, Reuters reported, citing a Pentagon spokesperson, that the execution will be broadcast live. Details of the broadcast are said to be announced later.

If the plan is carried out, Hasan will be the first convict to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945. The last death penalty in the US military system was executed in 1961.

The proposal to execute Hasan by firing squad was put forward by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. President Donald Trump approved this decision.

In one of his interviews, Hegseth said that the sentence would be carried out by soldiers and that an opportunity would be created for people to watch the process. He explained this by the need to show that such crimes have severe consequences.

Nidal Hasan, who served as a psychiatrist in the army, opened fire on November 5, 2009, at unarmed people gathered for a medical examination at the Fort Hood base.

As a result of the attack, 13 people were killed and another 32 were injured. Hasan himself was also wounded by return fire and has been paralyzed in his legs since then.

He explained his actions by a desire to protect Muslims in Afghanistan from American soldiers.

In 2013, a military court found Hasan guilty and sentenced him to death. The jury reached the decision unanimously after four hours of deliberation.

Hasan did not deny carrying out the attack during the trial. He waived the services of lawyers and defended himself, but did not present any witnesses or evidence in his favor.

The lawyers appointed to him as required by law stated that Hasan may have deliberately tried to obtain a death sentence.

Since then, he has been held in a military prison in Kansas.