WASHINGTON — The US military is preparing to carry out its first execution by firing squad since World War II, following an announcement by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that the capital sentence of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be carried out as a public event.
Speaking during a broadcast interview, Hegseth confirmed that the execution is scheduled for December 3 at 1 pm at the Texas military base where Hasan opened fire in 2009, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others.
The decision follows formal approval from US President Donald Trump, marking a significant escalation in the enforcement of military capital punishment.
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The impending execution brings closure to a protracted legal saga stemming from the November 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood installation, where the former Army psychiatrist carried out a mass shooting that predominantly targeted fellow service members. Hasan was subsequently convicted during a 2013 court-martial on multiple counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder, remaining confined on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, while exhausting successive layers of legal appeals.
The choice of a firing squad, a rare method in modern US jurisprudence, highlights the administration’s stated objective to demonstrate absolute accountability for crimes committed against the armed forces.
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