Soldier who killed 13 people in 2009 will still be executed, but president said ‘people would rather not watch him die’

Hasan, who was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by law enforcement officers during the shooting at Fort Hood, now uses a wheelchair.

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said last week that the execution of Hasan would be a public event. Hasan’s sentence will be the first military execution in more than 60 years, and would have been the first in US history to be publicly broadcast.

In a statement to the Guardian on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Pentagon said Trump and Hegseth “spoke about the decision to not livestream Hasan’s execution” before Trump’s statement. Hegesth “supports the President’s decision, and they are completely aligned”, they added.

  • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Trump simply puts in public what other admins would have done covertly. In a sense, he has done more to expose what politics actually is than any other president before him.

    • crispbacon99@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Notice I said regime, all Republican officials plus any of the AIPAC democrats voting alongside them are guilty and morally bankrupt as well.

        • goldfndr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          26 days ago

          LMAO, you’re limiting to a single country? Like it wouldn’t apply to other countries? Really?

            • goldfndr@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              24 days ago

              I see that you’re trying to weasel out. “Most” “civilized” countries, eh? Username checks out.

              • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                24 days ago

                Weasel out of what? Yeah America is barbaric as fuck lol. The government shouldn’t be able to murder its citizens.

                By the way, the original discussion is on American admins, and the fact that every single one of them presided over federal executions, lol. I think you’re confused.