Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, will be executed by firing squad, a decision Hegseth called a 'no-brainer' while speaking aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
In April, Trump administration added death by firing squad to list of permissible federal execution methods for most serious federal crimes.
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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