Former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Dec. 3 at the same military installation where he carried out the attack.
The Army announced that Hasan’s execution will take place at 1 p.m. CST at Fort Hood, Texas. President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s death sentence Oct. 2, and Acting Secretary of the Army Adam Telle directed the execution by firing squad Oct. 6.
Hasan carried out the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where soldiers were preparing for deployment. He fired 146 rounds, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others.
A military jury convicted Hasan in 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. He was sentenced to death Aug. 28, 2013.
The execution will be carried out by firing squad, making it the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the first military firing-squad execution since World War II.
The Pentagon also announced last week that Hasan’s execution will be livestreamed to the public after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be public.
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public,” Hegseth said on Real America’s Voice.
During his court-martial, prosecutors presented evidence that Hasan had expressed support for jihadist ideology and opposed U.S. military operations in Muslim-majority countries. Hasan represented himself during the trial and described the attack as an act of jihad.
The last U.S. military execution took place April 13, 1961, when Army Pvt. John A. Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after being convicted of rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl.
The last U.S. military execution by firing squad occurred in 1945, when Army Pvt. Eddie Slovik was executed in France for desertion during World War II.
