Pentagon Plans Livestream of Nidal Hasan Execution at Ford Hood

The Pentagon says it will livestream Nidal Hasan’s firing squad execution, which would be the first public U.S. execution since the 1930s.

The Chestnut Post Staff · October 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT

The Pentagon says it plans to broadcast live the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad at Ford Hood, where he carried out a mass shooting in 2009.

According to NPR, the livestream would make the execution the first held publicly in the United States since the 1930s.

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