There is so much wrong with these people.
#Trump has approved the #execution by #FiringSquad of #NidalMalikHasan, a former US Army psychiatrist who opened fire on dozens of people at #FortHood, Texas, in 2009.
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s spox, said Monday that #Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth had recommended death by army firing squad, & Trump approved it.
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell said on X.
#law #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/06/trump-orders-firing-squad-execution-fort-hood-shooter-nidal-hasan/
If carried out, it would mark the first #US #military #execution since 13 April 1961, when US Army Private John A. Bennett was hanged after being convicted of rape & attempted murder, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), which monitors #CapitalPunishment.
…The US military’s last known #FiringSquad execution was carried out by “musketry” on Nov. 9, 1945, according to DPIC.
… #Execution by #FiringSquad is rare in the #US, permitted in a handful of states comprising Idaho, Oklahoma, Utah, South Carolina & Mississippi. Three people in South Carolina were put to death using the method last year, DPIC data showed. Before then, only three people had been executed in this manner since 1977 — all in Utah.
#Trump has long been a staunch supporter of #CapitalPunishment. During his first term in 2020, the #DOJ carried out its first federal executions in nearly two decades. In his second term, his admin lifted a moratorium on federal executions & pushed for more death sentences.
In April, the #DOJ said it would move to expand #execution methods used to carry out federal death sentences beyond lethal injections, including by making the #ElectricChair ‼️ & firing squads available in some cases. It also directed federal officials to restore the execution protocol from Trump’s first term, which uses the drug pentobarbital for lethal injections.
@Nonilex Excuse me, but is executing people pro-life or pro-death? And isn’t there a thou shall not kill commandment or something? #hypocrisy
It's not hypocrisy if there isn't a coherent philosophy in the first place.
In other words, it's not contradicting a rule if there is no rule.
That's at the core of contemporary conservatism: conclusion first, finding supportive argument later, and bending facts third. You can hear it playing out every day of the week in Fox News adjacent media outfits.
