Live Execution in doubt

Trump rethinks livestream plan for Nidal Hasan firing squad execution

President Trump is privately rethinking a plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan after bipartisan criticism that the broadcast would cheapen justice rather than deliver it.

Hasan’s death sentence is still set for Dec. 3. The question now is whether the American public will watch it live.

Axios reported Monday that the president has expressed reservations about the unprecedented broadcast, citing four people who have spoken with him. One confidant outside the administration said Trump indicated the livestream “might not happen.” A source familiar with his tone added that he “didn’t sound particularly enthusiastic.”

War Secretary Pete Hegseth had announced the plan only days earlier. He framed the public broadcast as a necessary show of consequences. Trump first backed it, then said he would make the final call himself.

The execution itself remains on schedule either way. Administration officials have been clear on that point. What is in doubt is the camera.

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