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Donald Trump approved the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, by US army firing squad. Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced this decision on X, stating that defense secretary Pete Hegseth had recommended and Trump had approved the method of execution. Hasan will be the first US soldier executed by military means in over six decades for his role as an army psychiatrist who carried out a mass shooting at Fort Hood.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-06,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, an Army major and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded over 30 others during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recommended and Trump approved the execution method. The Army secretary will set the time and place for the execution.
Hasan was convicted by a military jury in 2013 and sentenced to death. During his trial, he admitted to opening fire while shouting "Allahu Akbar" and claimed his actions were motivated by opposition to U.S. military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. He also had previously communicated with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
This execution would mark the first use of a firing squad for an American service member since 1961, making it a significant legal and historical event.
Written for “Fort Hood Shooter Execution Approval” on 2026-10-06,
grounded in this article and the 5 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
The model judged this article politically coded and scored it +0.35, but 1 quote(s) could not be found in the article and the other 1 are attributed speech rather than the article's own narration, so the score is not published.
Written under an earlier scoring contract, which gave a paragraph
rather than checkable quotes. Re-analysing this article replaces it.
Leaning score withheld for article 59000: no verified evidence · logged 2026-10-06
Donald Trump has approved the execution by US army firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a social media post.
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Parnell → approve → post
Hasan, who was an army psychiatrist, would become first US soldier to be executed by the US military in more than 60 years.
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who → become → years
Parnell said in a post on X that defense secretary Pete Hegseth “has recommended – and President Donald J. Trump has approved – death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan”.
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Trump → say → Hasan
He added: “The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution.
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Secretary → add → execution
Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”
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day → come → Hasan
Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013 for carrying out the mass shooting at the Fort Hood base.
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Hasan → sentence → base
He chose to conduct his own defense during the trial but called no witnesses and gave no testimony, and made no attempt to deny the charges.
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He → choose → charges
Court-appointed defense attorneys expressed concern that he was seeking execution.
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he → appoint → execution
Hasan, a US-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, opened fire on 5 November 2009 at a medical facility in the sprawling military base, which served as a staging point for soldiers to deploy to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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soldiers → bear → Iraq
Twelve of the dead and 30 of the wounded were soldiers.
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30 → wound → wounded
Hasan was shot and partially paralyzed by a civilian police officer who responded to the attack.
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who → shoot → attack
The court that convicted Hasan was told that he was opposed to the US military’s occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that Hasan had spoken online with the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida propagandist and American citizen subsequently killed in a US drone strike in Yemen.
Although US mass shootings are disturbingly common, they are rare at military facilities.
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they → convict → facilities
In 2025, a soldier opened fire at a US military base in the state of Georgia, wounding five fellow troops before he was tackled and apprehended.
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he → open → troops
In 2019, a US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at a base in Hawaii, while a Saudi military student shot dead three people at a military facility in Florida the same year.
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student → shoot → Florida
A Kuwaiti-born US citizen attacked two military installations in Tennessee in 2015, killing four Marines and a sailor.
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citizen → bear → Marines
The FBI concluded the violence was inspired by a “foreign terrorist group.”
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violence → conclude → group
Two years earlier, a man killed 12 people and wounded eight at the Washington Navy Yard in the US capital before being shot dead by officers.
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man → kill → officers
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