Chief US Archbishop Slams Hegseth's 'Barbaric' Livestreaming of Execution
Summary
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad. The execution is scheduled for December 3, 2024, and would be the first public military execution livestreamed in the U.S. in nearly 100 years.Key Facts
- Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, will be executed by firing squad for a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13 and injured over 30.
- The execution is set for December 3, 2024, at Fort Hood, Texas.
- The Pentagon announced the execution will be livestreamed to the public.
- Archbishop Paul S. Coakley called the livestream a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”
- This would be the first publicly livestreamed execution in the U.S., as public executions ended in the 1930s.
- The Death Penalty Information Center said there is no record of any previous U.S. execution being livestreamed.
- The decision has raised questions about the death penalty and how it is carried out in the U.S.
- President Donald Trump’s administration is currently in charge of the military and this decision.
Read the Full Article
This is a fact-based summary from The Actual News. Click below to read the complete story directly from the original source.
