Nidal Hasan Faces Firing Squad
The Army set Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood.
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Overdue justice or a step backward?
The Army set Fort Hood attacker Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood.
Overdue justice or a step backward?
It would be the first US military execution since Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged in 1961, and the Army's first by firing squad since Pvt. Eddie Slovik was shot in France in 1945.
Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle set Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad for December 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT at Fort Hood, Texas, where Hasan killed 13 people in 2009.
Habeas corpus is Hasan's last door, an old Latin key that federal judges in Kansas rarely let turn.
Lethal injection got passed over for rifles the same week Tennessee made the needle look like the old-fashioned choice.
A court-martial convicted Hasan in 2013; the paperwork then took longer than most enlistments to reach a calendar date.
Workplace violence was the Pentagon's first label for Fort Hood, a phrase that filed a terror attack under HR.
Eddie Slovik is back in the news, the only way a 1945 deserter ever gets recalled to duty.
The death penalty, Army edition, must wait at least 60 days after approval: the one deadline the Pentagon is told not to beat.