Trump says Nidal Hasan execution won’t be livestreamed– www.cnbc.com
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Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff’s Office photograph.
Bell County Sheriff’s Office | Reuters
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the planned execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan would not be livestreamed, canceling the Pentagon‘s plans to do so.
Trump’s announcement came after growing backlash against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s effort to show the former U.S. Army major’s execution live online, with concern that the footage would become a recruiting tool for terrorists.
Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 by an Army firing squad at 1 p.m. Central Time in Fort Hood, which is located in Killeen, Texas.
