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Pentagon Says Firing Squad Execution Will Be Livestreamed. The execution of a former US Army major by firing squad will be livestreamed to the public, according to the Pentagon. Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death for shooting dead 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. The Pentagon announced earlier this week that Hasan would become the first person executed by the US military in more than 60 years. If livestreamed, it is believed to be the first public execution in the United States in almost a century. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said people needed to understand there were serious consequences for such acts. However, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy criticised the decision to broadcast the execution while a lawyer representing death-row prisoners said the move was unprecedented in the modern era and raised legal questions. Alonzo Lunsford, a former soldier wounded in the Fort Hood attack has expressed support for the firing-squad execution.
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