Pentagon to Livestream Execution of Fort Hood Shooter

The U.S. Defense Department announced it will livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major convicted of killing 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the public will be able to watch the firing squad execution, marking what is believed to be the first public execution in the United States in nearly a century. The decision represents unprecedented use of livestreaming technology for a military execution and occurs on "uncertain legal terrain," according to legal experts working with death row inmates. The Pentagon announced earlier this week that Hasan would face execution in the first military execution carried out in more than 60 years. The livestreaming decision has drawn attention from legal scholars questioning its precedent in modern American jurisprudence.