Trump Cancels Nidal Hasan Execution Livestream as 80% Oppose Public Broadcast
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Updated · CNBC · Oct 15
Trump Cancels Nidal Hasan Execution Livestream as 80% Oppose Public Broadcast
3 articles · Updated · CNBC · Oct 15
Summary
Trump said Nidal Hasan’s Dec. 3 execution at Fort Hood will proceed by firing squad but will not be livestreamed, reversing a Pentagon plan to show it online.
An 80%-18% Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll landed hours earlier, reinforcing objections that live footage could become a terrorist recruiting tool rather than a deterrent.
Immediate families of the 13 people killed in the 2009 Fort Hood attack may still attend in person, Trump said, while Hasan remains scheduled to die at 1 p.m. local time.
The reversal undercuts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Oct. 8 push for a public viewing; major platforms had not said whether they would carry the stream, and TikTok pointed to rules against graphic content.
Hasan, 56, was sentenced to death in a 2013 court-martial for killing 13 and wounding 32, and his execution would be the first stemming from a U.S. military court-martial since 1961.