Nidal Hasan will be executed by Firing Squad
On December 3 at 1 PM Central, if the courts allow it, an Army firing squad at Fort Hood will execute Nidal Hasan, and anyone with an internet connection will be able to watch.The Pentagon confirmed the livestream on October 8, six days after President Trump approved the death sentence and two days after Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle signed the execution order. Hasan murdered 13 people and wounded 32 on that same post on November 5, 2009. A military jury convicted him in August 2013.
The Supreme Court declined to hear his case in March 2025. Seventeen years will have passed between the crime and the punishment, and for all but the last few minutes of those 17 years the public has been permitted to watch. It watched the trial. It read the verdict. It followed the appeals. The objection now is that the defendant should be sent out of the room for the ending.
A citizen who opposes capital punishment should want the country to see what it authorizes, on the theory that the sight will change minds. A citizen who supports it should be willing to look at what he supports. Either way, the republic is better served by people who know what is being done in their name than by people who have arranged not to know.
On December 3, the Army will fire, the country will watch, and for the first time in 90 years the last act of an American criminal judgment will be as public as the first. That is not a return to the county fair. It is a return to the courthouse.
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