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President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad for the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people during a shooting at Fort Hood in 2009. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced that this method was approved along with recommendations from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This would be the first US military execution by firing squad since 1945 and the only known execution by this method since then, marking it as an extremely rare occurrence in U.S. military justice history.
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
On October 5, President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, an American-born Muslim and US Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. The Pentagon announced that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had recommended this action, marking the first U.S. military execution since 1961. During the attack, Hasan also wounded more than three dozen others while shouting "Allahu Akbar." Although the exact time and place have not been determined yet, they must be set within 60 to 150 days according to Army policy. The court found that Hasan was opposed to the US military’s occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and had communicated online with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki before carrying out the attack. This will be the first time a U.S. soldier is executed by firing squad since Private John Bennett in 1961.
Written for “Fort Hood Shooter Execution Approval” on 2026-10-06,
grounded in this article and the 16 other(s) covering the same event.
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Leaning score withheld for article 59462: attributed speech only · logged 2026-10-06
United States President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad in the execution of a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon spokesman has said.
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spokesman → order → 2009
Nidal Hasan, a US citizen of Palestinian descent, would be the first US soldier to be executed by the US military in more than 60 years.
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Hasan → execute → years
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Hasan will be killed by a firing squad under the recommendation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the approval of the president, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement on X on Monday.
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Parnell → encourage → Monday
The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, he said.
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he → decide → execution
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote.
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Parnell → come → Hasan
Hasan was sentenced to death in August 2013 after a military jury found him guilty of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted murder for shooting a handgun in a medical facility at the Texas military base.
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him → sentence → base
The attack killed 12 unarmed active-duty soldiers and a retired serviceman, and wounded 32 others.
Police arrested him at the scene, where he was shot and left partially paralysed.
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he → kill → scene
The shooting took place weeks before Hasan was set to be deployed to Afghanistan.
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Hasan → take → Afghanistan
He said during his court-martial that the shooting was an effort to stop the soldiers from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims, and made almost no effort to defend himself.
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shooting → say → himself
The Trump administration added death by firing squad as an appropriate method of execution in April, along with gas asphyxiation and electrocution.
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administration → add → asphyxiation
Military executions are extremely rare in the US and can only be approved by the president under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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executions → approve → Justice
If the order is carried out, he will be the first member of the US military to be executed since 1961.
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he → carry → 1961
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the 1961 execution was carried out by hanging.
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execution → accord → hanging
The apparent last known execution by a US military firing squad was one carried out “by musketry” in November 1945, the center reported.
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center → know → November
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