Only 2 countries held known public executions last year. The U.S. is preparing for its first in 90 years.

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Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood killings, will be publicly executed by firing squad via livestream on December 3rd.
This will be the first public execution in the United States in nearly a century.
The decision has faced bipartisan criticism, with critics likening it to practices in countries with human rights violations, such as Iran and Afghanistan.
Historically, the last large-scale public execution in the U.S. was Rainey Bethea in 1936, followed by Roscoe "Red" Jackson in 1937.
Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea are noted as countries that still carry out public executions, often in public spaces or stadiums.
Human rights organizations argue that public executions are cruel, inhuman, and lack evidence of being a greater deterrent than the death penalty itself.

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