The White House has cleared a firing squad death for the attacker on Ft. Hood….and now it will be live streamed….

The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.”

The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.

Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice on Wednesday, said, “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public.” Officials in the Pentagon clarified Thursday that the execution would be livestreamed and that more details would follow.

The revelation from Hegseth about the public nature of the execution — let alone one as violent as a firing squad — has raised further questions about how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S., especially after the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.

https://apnews.com/article/fort-hood-shooter-execution-pentagon-818853afc1be5c70fe41c5b781a8d559

I have mixed thoughts about this.

This is just a macho move by Pistol Pete to emphasize the miltary-ness that he embraces.

A new low for ‘reality TV’.

Sadly I think it maybe a big hit….for the public has gotten more ghoulish thanx to Donny and the Butts…..

This will not be a deterrent to further terrorists acts…if anything it may create a martyr for what ever cause it is….

This is a game played by morons.

But now ask yourself….what could possibly be next?

How about public hangings?

Under President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has broken a number of precedents, from targeting Black and female officers in the military to purging top officers for not being sufficiently loyal to the Republican administration. Now he is ordering the first public execution in modern American history.

“Pentagon officials said on Thursday that the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be executed in public, a practice that ended in the United States nearly a century ago and is most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan,” reported Chris Cameron of The New York Times on Thursday. “The Pentagon said in a statement that the military execution, scheduled for Dec. 3, would also be broadcast via livestream. Such a broadcast has little precedent, and releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State.”

On the social media platform X, commentators from all sides reacted with horror.

https://www.alternet.org/public-lynchings/

The whole idea of public executions is just plain sick.

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