US Bishops Chief Condemns Livestream of Hassan Execution as Pentagon Schedules Dec. 3 Firing Squad
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Updated · Vatican News - English · Oct 9
US Bishops Chief Condemns Livestream of Hassan Execution as Pentagon Schedules Dec. 3 Firing Squad
3 articles · Updated · Vatican News - English · Oct 9
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Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said the planned public livestream of Nidal Hassan’s execution is a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death” and urged the decision be reconsidered.
The Pentagon scheduled Hassan’s execution by firing squad for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood after President Donald Trump approved it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recommendation, though further legal proceedings could still delay it.
Hassan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, was sentenced to death in 2013 for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people and wounded 32.
The execution would be the US military’s first since 1961 and its first by firing squad since 1945, drawing separate criticism from the UN human rights office, which said a live broadcast would amount to a public execution and violate the ban on torture.