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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to be executed by firing squad

  • President Donald Trump has approved the execution of former army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan by firing squad for killing 13 people in Texas in 2009.
  • Defence secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution method, with the Pentagon stating that judgment day for Hasan has finally come.
  • Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 after being convicted on 45 counts of premeditated murder following his attack at the Fort Hood military base.
  • The execution will be the first by the US military since 1961 and the first military firing squad carried out since World War II.
  • The Trump administration recently expanded federal execution methods to include firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation due to shortages of lethal injection drugs.

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