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Trump casts doubt on Pentagon plan to live stream Fort Hood shooter’s execution

Trump casts doubt on Pentagon plan to live stream Fort Hood shooter’s execution
South China Morning Post Saturday 10 October 2026, 06:23 UTC By Agence France-Presse 1 min read
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US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Friday on whether authorities will live-stream the firing squad execution of the perpetrator of a deadly attack on American soldiers, a plan that has drawn broad and bipartisan condemnation. Nidal Hasan’s execution – scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 – is set to be the first by a US military firing squad since 1945. A Pentagon official said on Thursday that the execution would be streamed live, after US...

US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Friday on whether authorities will live-stream the firing squad execution of the perpetrator of a deadly attack on American soldiers, a plan that has drawn broad and bipartisan condemnation. Nidal Hasan’s execution – scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 – is set to be the first by a US military firing squad since 1945. A Pentagon official said on Thursday that the execution would be streamed live, after US...
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