US to livestream execution of Texas gunman who killed 13
The US Pentagon plans to livestream the upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in 2009. This move would be an unprecedented broadcast of a state-sanctioned execution in the United States.
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The decision to livestream an execution raises significant ethical and legal questions regarding the public nature of capital punishment in the modern era.
The US will livestream the army's upcoming firing squad execution of a man who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon has said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution.
Nidal Hasan, a former US 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 3 December at the same 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 failed execution by 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.
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