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Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution will not be livestreamed, Trump says

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC., on September 28, 2026.
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2026. © Alex Brandon, AP

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was cancelling plans to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base shooter – a project that had sparked outrage in the United States. Nidal Hasan is scheduled to be executed on December 3 at Fort Hood in Texas, where he killed 13 people in 2009.

The firing squad execution of a convicted military base shooter will not be livestreamed, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday, cancelling a contentious plan by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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