Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan

What the report says

President Donald Trump has approved the use of a firing squad for the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, according to a Pentagon statement reported by Al Jazeera. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the order followed a recommendation from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and that the Army secretary will determine the time and place of the execution.

Hasan, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent, was sentenced to death in 2013 after a military jury found him guilty on dozens of charges tied to the attack at the Texas Army base. The shooting killed 13 people and wounded 31 others, according to the article. Hasan was arrested at the scene and was left partly paralyzed after being shot by police. The attack occurred shortly before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera noted that military executions are rare in the United States and require presidential approval under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If carried out, Hasan would become the first U.S. service member executed by the military since 1961. The report also said the firing squad was added as an execution method under the Trump administration in April, alongside gas asphyxiation and electrocution.

The case remains notable because it involves both the scale of the Fort Hood killings and the unusual military execution process, which has drawn renewed attention to U.S. capital punishment practices.