Hegseth pledges public Hasan firing-squad execution

Oct 8

ABC airs a Jack Posobiec interview with Pete Hegseth recorded aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln late the previous day. Hegseth says Nidal Hasan will face a firing squad at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m., and pledges to let the public watch. Trevor Ault reports a Defense Department official confirming plans to livestream the execution on October 8. Hasan's attorney calls the pledge political theater and the comments irresponsible. Ault keeps the December execution conditional and says it would be the first public U.S. execution in about 90 years. The report describes a plan and public pledge, not a carried-out execution.

On October 8, Pentagon officials tell ABC and Fox that Nidal Hasan's planned firing-squad execution will be livestreamed. ABC explicitly says the official confirmation is that evening and retains the December execution as conditional. Fox reports December 3 at Fort Hood and recalls the conviction, earlier presidential approval and Hegseth's public-access pledge. This confirmation develops the October 7 recorded pledge and October 6 scheduling order; no execution is reported carried out.