Trump says Fort Hood US shooter execution will not be livestreamed

What the report says

US President Donald Trump has said the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the man convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood attack, will not be livestreamed. Al Jazeera reported that the announcement on Thursday reversed an earlier Pentagon plan to make the killing public, a step that had drawn criticism from lawmakers and legal experts.

Hasan was convicted over the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, which killed 13 people. Trump described him in a social media post as a “very bad and evil man” and said the administration would still carry out the firing-squad execution as scheduled, but without a live video broadcast. He added that immediate family members of the victims would be allowed to view it.

The article said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously said the execution would be public, and had tied that decision to the need for consequences for such crimes. That plan prompted objections from some members of Trump’s own Republican Party and concerns that broadcasting the execution could breach US law or be inaccessible to minors.

The development matters because it highlights an unusual and highly contentious approach to capital punishment in the US, where public executions have not been carried out for decades. It also reflects a broader debate over how the government should balance transparency, punishment and the risk of turning such an event into a spectacle.