>https://www.reuters.com/world/us-livestream-army-execution-fort-hood-shooter-pentagon-official-says-2026-10-08/>The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution.>Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945.>The execution is scheduled for December 3 at the same sprawling Texas base where >Hasan opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun in a medical facility. It comes amid heightened debate in the US over the death penalty following the botched lethal injection of a Tennessee woman last week.>"It will be livestreamed. Details will follow," a Pentagon official told Reuters, speaking on the condition of anonymity.>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who championed the push to execute Hasan by firing squad, confirmed plans to livestream the execution in an X post.>Media have sought to televise US executions in the past but have been blocked by the courts. No other country is known to televise or livestream a legal execution, experts said. Public executions have become exceedingly rare worldwide. Among countries known to conduct them in recent years are Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan.>Extrajudicial lynchings in the United States, often by white mobs targeting Black Americans, were public spectacles well into the 20th century. The last legally sanctioned public execution in the United States was conducted in 1936, death penalty experts said. >Thousands watched that 1936 hanging, opens new tab of a young Black man who had been convicted of raping a white woman.>Hegseth told the Human Events Daily program that deciding to execute Hasan by firing squad at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m. — the approximate time, day of the week and location of the 2009 shooting — was a "no-brainer."
>"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public. Because people need to understand that ... there's serious consequences for these types of things," Hegseth said.>Asked if Hasan had made any final requests, Hegseth said: "Don't care. We'll see him on December 3.">PRESIDENT MUST APPROVE FIRING SQUAD EXECUTION>A military jury sentenced Hasan to death in August 2013, after finding him guilty of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.>The shooting came weeks before Hasan, now 56, was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan. He was left partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair from being shot by police during his arrest.>Under US military law, a US president must approve an execution by firing squad. President Donald Trump did so on Hegseth's recommendation, the Pentagon said on Monday.>The White House declined to say whether Trump supported the livestreaming, referring questions to the Pentagon.>The group Death Penalty Action, which opposes capital punishment, said Hasan's execution would be the first military execution since 1961.>According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the 1961 execution was carried out by hanging.>The last known executions by US military firing squads were in 1945, the center reported."It would be extremely, extremely strange" to livestream the event, said Eugene Fidell, a lawyer, author and military law expert who lectures at Yale Law School.>While firing squads have a long history in American military law, as far as he knew it would be unprecedented to livestream or televise an execution, Fidell said, adding that Hasan would need to sue in federal court if he wanted to block a public display of his death.
>"The Supreme Court has never addressed this question, and it's an interesting question whether the current Supreme Court would put on their originalist hat and say, 'Well, it was OK in 1790, so what the hell?'" Fidell said.>Jonathan Lurie, an author and historian of military justice, said there are no compelling reasons to make the execution public.>"What's the point of it? Who would want to see that?" said Lurie.>At least five states have firing squads on the books, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In 2025, South Carolina carried out the first such execution in the United States in 15 years.>Death by firing squad is one of several forms of capital punishment the Trump administration recently added to permissible forms of execution for the gravest of federal crimes, along with electrocution and gas asphyxiation.>The number of federal execution options was expanded in part because of increasing difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections, which have also sometimes proved challenging to carry out.>Plans by the state of Tennessee to execute a woman for the first time in more than 200 years went awry last week when prison personnel botched attempts to administer a lethal injection, leaving the death-row inmate, Christa Pike, alive but hospitalized.>Her lawyers said on Wednesday she awoke "angry and confused" in a hospital.>Pike remains very sick and shackled to her hospital bed, they said.
>>1542322I told you guys this about a year ago. This will be the beginning of hell on earth. B
And the GOP's transformation into an open death cult is complete.
>>1542329It's not like we constantly viewed footage of George Floyd's death in 2020 to justify mass rioting and looting.
>>1542330You're right. Footage of the government executing people leads to violence and looting. They shouldn't be airing this execution.
>>1542336The government wasn't the one playing this footage on repeat. I checked C-SPANIt was CNN, MSNBC, ABC
>>1542330at least you admit that george floyd's death was extrajudicial execution
>>1542341>I don't know what CSPAN is for but I name drop it all the timekek
>>1542329You are aware that public executions have a long tradition in most European cultures? And that public execution of treasonous soldiers is especially common.
>>1542322Bread and Circuses. It's what this empire ruled by an orange Nero is reduced to, prior to it's downfall.>Pete Kegsbreath wanting this>miggers wanting to watch thisConservatives prove themselves to be violent.
>>1542344Brian Lamb, C-SPAN's chairman and former chief executive officer, conceived C-SPAN in 1975 while working as the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of Cablevision.[2] Cable television was a rapidly growing industry, and Lamb envisioned a non-profit network, financed by the cable industry, that televised Congressional sessions, public affairs events, and policy discussions.[3][4][5] Bob Rosencrans, providing $25,000 of initial funding in 1979,[3][6] and John D. Evans, providing wiring and access to the headend needed for the distribution of the C-SPAN signal,[7][8] were among those who helped Lamb launch the network. At meetings with House of Representatives leadership, Lamb and Rosencrans promised that the network would be non-political, which helped override broadcast and local network resistance.[6]C-SPAN was launched on March 19, 1979,[9] for the first televised session made available by the House of Representatives, beginning with a speech by then-Tennessee representative and later senator, Vice President, and presidential candidate Al Gore.[10][11] Upon its debut, only 3.5 million homes were wired for C-SPAN,[12] and the network had just three employees.[13] For the first few years C-SPAN leased satellite time from the USA Network and had approximately 9 hours of daily programming. On February 1, 1982, C-SPAN launched its own transponder and expanded programming to 16 hours a day; the arrangement with the USA Network was discontinued two months later.[14] C-SPAN began full-time operations on September 13, 1982.[15]
>>1542360'Kay. NTA. First of all, it would've been easy to ignore the troll that said you don't know what CSPAN is, that's a fucking weird thing to attack.Posting an article about something verbatim doesn't prove you know something; it implies you don't know that thing because you had to look it up.Responding to that strange ass allegation specifically shows you were baited and you took the bait. You lost that encounter, and are shitting up the board and thread with two massive huge paragraphs of inane trivia unrelated to anything.>>1542345What bearing does that have on anything? Are you trying to argue that regression of our values is a good thing because others do it? Which countries in Europe that still do it, and goo's ones we actually want to emulate?>>1542358I also that their morality is selective, that they condemn violence directed at them, but encourage it directed at others and revel in the spectacle.
>>1542362ESL shil is a barely sentient AI bot thats been programmed to be attracted to trans womenEngaging with them is a waste of time
>I also thatOthers also know that 1542362 is an immoral Republican and supporter of the morally inferior Trump, as well as being /news/' resident esl shill lolcow, directing ridicule at itself, and others revel in the spectacle of 1542362 humiliating itself.>weHi, esl shill.>goo's onesContinue humiliating yourself as you look for a decent school that teaches English, especially the good ones.
>>1542363>>1542364>Seething because an Islamic terrorist is going to face a firing squad and we get to watch Weird thing to get mad about.
>>1542365Don't respond to that liggeral. They're a paranoid schizophrenic who believes every person they are talking to is the same guy they call "esl shill" who they dunk on by making ad hominem attacks. He can never provide a source or back up what he is saying, he just repeats himself over and over again in place of proof and then says he's dunking on you and humiliating you
>the esl shill is seething1542365 is a weird violent conservative thing getting mad about a couple of posts that clearly touched the esl shill lolcow's nerve.
15423651542367get a room, faggots
>>1542369>>1542368you two need to start adding>weto your sentences because you're clearly in on this gay shit
>liggerals mad about thisWe used to have public hangings all the time, what's wrong with you faggots?
>>1542322All the democrat traitor scum being outraged by the public execution of one of their favorite traitor islamist terrorist massmurderer... just pretend its a christian father debating students who gets publicly executed, you loved that public execution you subhuman frauds.
>you're clearly in on this gay shitSays 1542371 obsessed with 'troons' in other threads, thus reduced to projecting, or would never be in on that gay shit, repeating itself over and over again in /news/.>he just repeats himself over and over again>liggeral>that fictional word in so many threads in /news/1542367 needs to repeat itself over and over again, certainly making IMAX obsolete.Immorality. Hypocrisy. It's hardwired into the DNA of the likes of 1542362 1542367 1542371.
>just pretendYou're a normal sane person who would never so much as think of watching an execution, because normal civilized people wouldn't.But then, you've just proven to everyone else that you aren't normal and sane, 1542375.
>>1542322Well that’s incredibly fucked up.
You're a normal sane person, says the crazy guy who is talking to himself
>says the crazy guy who is talking to himselfBut enough about 1542390
>>1542322This is fucking barbaric.
Eyes on the TV, cause tragedy thrills me, whatever flavor, it happens to be...
Firing squad is too basic. Why not by monster-truck in a stadium in front of a roaring crowd? Get some corporate sponsors in too. I'm sure Gatorade and Carl Juniors would be more than happy too.
>>1542477or just skip right to the carlin bit
>>1542322Good. Make sure to stuff some bacon in his mouth.
>>1542477You joke about the sponsors, but the government will definitely be using the livestream for recruiting. A lot of the men who joined ISIS were inspired by those beheading videos. It's the same idea here.
>>1542483How truly fucking revolting.
>not streaming a real life running man style event with death row inmates What is this woke shit? I thought this was America not Sweden!
>>1542322Well... thats not a great direction for us to start towards, I'd say. It was bad enough with all the extrajudicial killings we've seen, this just sets an awful precedent.
>>1542345And they all stopped doing it because it's for savages.
>>1542511According to those afraid of being executed, surely.
>>1542512According to civilized people.
>>1542510there's no way you're an American>>1542511>>1542445yeah you're right locking a human being in a box for 90 years is more humane than killing them in 3 seconds
>>1542518Sorry to disappoint you, retard, but I am, in fact, American. A very tired, disappointed one who sees a country turning it's face away from whatever God might be out there.
>>1542518what's with this misunderstanding I keep seeing around the internet, anyway? Folks say "we shouldn't be publically televising our executions" and they get mobbed by dumbasses who immediately assume that's some bleeding-heart plea not to kill the fucker. Nobody's saying he shouldn't be executed, they're just saying it ain't great to give him an audience.
>>1542522>and they get mobbed by dumbasses who immediately assume that's some bleeding-heart plea not to kill the fuckerThat's because the complaints about this guy getting killed are coming from leftists who think he's an automatic victim by virtue of being a Palestinian arab.Semitic blood feud aside, it's a good thing to make public examples out of violent criminals, both as a warning to others and give justice to the victims.
Difference was Floyd's death was a murder that the fascist right continues to this day demand that your eyes and ears are lying and that it wasn't a murder. Odds are the cop that murdered Floyd would have gotten away with it if there wasn't direct video evidence showing him murdering Floyd.
>>1542524>demand that your eyes and ears are lying and that it wasn't a murder.He threatened a pregnant woman with a gun.
>>1542524Nah. It turns out that if you say, with your mouth, "I can't breathe," you have just told a lie. It also turns out that a knee between the shoulderblades is one way officers around the world are trained to restrain someone. And if you had watched the trial you would have seen the bodycam footage showing THAT was where the knee was.
>>1542525>>1542526>Still lying>Even doing the 'your eyes are ears are lying' move too.All your cope doesn't change the fact the Floyd got murdered by a cop.
>>1542527>Still lyingFloyd plead guilty
>>1542528To dying?Extreme cope
>>1542526>If you can talk you aren't being suffocated.You don't even have to cut off someone's air to suffocate them. You could cut off the blood supply to their brain without blocking their breathing. You can also put your knee on someone's back, preventing their chest from expanding, meaning it would be easy for them to breathe out/speak, and extremely hard to breathe in.>Police around the world...I don't know police protocol around the world. (And let's be real, neither do you), but I do know that in America holding someone with your knee between their shoulders is illegal, specifically because it has killed people before.>If you watched the trial, you'd see THAT was where the knee was.Y-yeah..? So you're arguing the officer used a fatal hold that the police involved, like all Americans police, were explicitly trained was fatal and not to use.So you're arguing that Flyod was murdered by a cop. Weird way to concede that.
>>1542518If a man is killed, that's it. Game over, gg no re. There have been multiple cases where evidence was found that exonerated a convict but didn't change the outcome because they had been fucking executed years prior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin#Sentence'Chauvin was sentenced to 22+1⁄2 years in prison (with credit given for the 199 days he had already served) on the second-degree murder charge, while the second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder charges remain not adjudicated. The earliest Chauvin is eligible for release on parole is 2035, when he will be 59 years old. Under Chauvin's federal plea agreement, he will serve his state and federal sentences concurrently and be subject to five years of parole after release''On August 24, 2022, Chauvin was transferred from the state correctional facility at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, to FCI Tucson, a medium-security federal facility in Arizona. He was later transferred to FCI Big Spring, a low-security prison in Texas, after being stabbed'>stabbedThe inmates love cops who are now inmates>stabbedThis will set a precedent: don't allow wrong opinions, certainly wrongthink to exist in your mind that results in you committing more than just thoughtcrime in terms of actions that can be avoided or simply never acted upon in the first place.In the 2000 AD comic story Judge Dredd, Justice Department have the SJS: Judges who judge the Judges. Perhaps it's time for a RL SJS who accompany police at all times, and have greater powers than the police themselves: maybe accompany ICE agents everywhere and these particular SJS have infinitely greater powers than them. And this RL SJS consist of members of the public. After all, if you never do anything wrong, you'll never have to fear the consequences of your actions, police & ICE. Just ask Chauvin, in fear for his life 24/7 for the next 22.5 years. And beyond.Chauvin, thoughtcrime, wrongthink. Room 101.
>>1542345>You are aware that public executions have a long tradition in most European cultures?Mesoamerican cultures as well. What is your point?
>>1542543I think they're trying to stealthily inject non-european traditions into the military
>>1542536If a man is let out of prison that's also it. https://www.police1.com/arrests-sentencing/articles/police-man-was-out-on-bail-when-he-murdered-ex-girlfriend-her-7-year-old-daughter-ZV0m3aSOKs4WXAP2/If you let someone out on bail and they murder two people that's it GG no re.There have been multiple cases where we had enough evidence to lock someone up for life, we let them out on bail, and they murder people who will be dead forever, people who would have been alive if we just kept the guy locked up in the first place instead of letting him out on bail.
>>1542549Hence why the left calls for bail reform, but nah, the right has got to keep the money flowing.That said, your article is about a dude that had been awaiting trial for 6 fucking years, so there are multiple institutional failures there.
>>1542530To robbing a pregnant woman at gunpoint. He served five years.Floyd factually deserved to die.
"The natives are restless. They need a spectacle."-Randall Flagg, moments before his empire is destroyed.
>>1542569>To robbing a pregnant woman at gunpoint. He served five years.>Floyd factually deserved to die.The cop that killed him robbed the same woman through tax fraud. Guess he got what he deserves.
>>1542572>Guess he got what he deserves.He has another 5-10 years huddling alone in a jail cell, unable to join general pop without getting stabbed another 40 timesHe's getting off light.
1542572>floyd was stealing gimmedats out of the mouth of a pregnant mexican woman by committing tax evasion>that's why he deserves to be raped in prisonLeftoid logic.
looks like esl shill can't defend the actual op again and has resorted to stale talking points
1542574>defends a murderer now fearing for its life in prisonRightoid with no logic.
>>1542531Learn how vocal chords work little timmy. Yes,It's obvious you don't know about proper police procedures. Good thing one of the things I DO know is that a knee between the shoulderblades is standard procedure and perfectly legal. But buy all means, continue telling me you're to stupid to follow this conversation.
>>1542597>You don't know about proper police procedures.No you stupid faggot, I said I don't know international police procedures.>I do.You very obviously don't. Police training distinguishes positioning a knee for control from applying sustained body weight pressure to someone's back. Training materials explicitly warn against downward force and require pressure to be temporary. Applying sustained pressure to someone who is restrained and showing signs of breathing distress absolutely can constitute excessive force.>Learn how vocal chords work.So you're literally just lying, cool.Don't trust either of us. Ask your favorite search engine "does being able to speak prove someone can breathe adequately" and watch this fucking retard get btfo.
>>1542525So? He did his time for that.
>>1542574Learn2read
The irony, as usual, is that liberals have been calling for broadcast executions since the '50s, because they believe that doing so will cause Americans to turn against the death penalty. They seriously believed that people watching killers being put to death would shock them so much that there would be public outcry against it.Liberals are children, and should be treated as such. The reality is that broadcast/streamed executions would rally Americans in favor of the death penalty. Especially if there is footage of the crimes they committed. We love payback. We hate killers getting out of prison and going back to killing.
>>1542663get a real job
>>1542664With liberals, every accusation is an admission.
esl shill confirmed agent of satan
>>1542322Good, fuck that neckbeard up nicely.Dutch (no Death Penalty) and looking forward. You want sandniggers to take a hint? Show them how it's done. We don't kill to show killing is wrong - we kill killers to make sure they'll never have another chance. America Fuck Yeah.
>>1542663I mean, there's actually been scientific inquiry that suggest people who watch executions are less likely to support the death penalty... but you dipshits don't listen to research on anything, so why would you start now?>Reddit spacingRighty retards are mental invalids and should be treated as such. The reality is you still got BTFO in an argument with a strawman from 70 years ago where you're the only participant. Actually engaging with an argument would overheat your brain cell and kill you.>Liberals are children and should be treated as suchThinking about it, that's actually a pretty scary line from a miga chomo.
>>1542735>You want sandniggers to take a hint? Show them how it's done.Oh yeah, everybody knows radicalized islamists are very scared of... public executions. The guys who think that dying entitles them to 72 virgins in heaven. Seeing their buddy die a martyr will certainly make them stop being terrorists immediately!
>>1542783This is why Justin Trudeau said if you kill your enemies they win, but everyone started laughing at him after he said that for some reason
>>1542322i wish they'd take his alzheimer's more seriously
>>1542783just pretend its a christian father who argues with student, you traitors loved that public executionand also if your defense is "omg dont kill the poor literal traitor islamist massmurder c..cause virgins and muh symbole" just put the bullets in pig lard and dress the islamist in pink and let him be shoot by women while a dog pisses on the islamist pig. tadaa i solved your little bullshit excuse
>symbole1543042 is a symbol of the inferiority of esl shills.>let him be shootLet 1543042 be shot with looks, smirks and sarcastic remarks, then pointed and laughed at by everyone else due to the esl shill humuliating itself.
