Palmer Luckey says that executions should be 'public and brutal'

Palmer Luckey called private executions "awful and dystopian." Bloomberg/Getty Images Palmer Luckey said that he was in favor of public executions. Luckey weighed in on the case of Nidal Hasan, who Pete Hegseth said would be executed on a livestream. Private executions are "awful and dystopian," Luckey wrote on X. Palmer Luckey wants to bring executions out from behind the curtain. The cofounder of Anduril weighed in on the case of Nidal Hasan , who was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Hasan's execution would be livestreamed. President Donald Trump said he was still weighing the decision. Luckey said that he'd been "outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade" — and that his position hadn't changed. "Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized," Luckey wrote in a Sunday post on X .