Fort Hood shooter's execution will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Updated on: October 8, 2026 / 7:56 PM EDT / CBS News
TL;DR
- The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, by firing squad on December 3rd.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the execution will be public to show serious consequences.
- The execution is scheduled to take place at Fort Hood at 1 p.m.
- The Trump administration approved the plan for Hasan's execution.
- Livestreaming an execution is a rare event in U.S. history, with the last public execution reportedly occurring in 1936.
- Legal experts question the morality of making the execution a public spectacle.
- Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, was convicted of murdering 13 people and injuring over 30, and was sentenced to death.
- This could be the military's first execution of a service member since 1961.
- The use of a firing squad is also rare, with the last known military execution by firing squad being Pvt. Eddie Slovik in 1945.
- Hasan represented himself at trial and intentionally sought the death penalty.