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 This is nothing but bloodlust.
Well, when I listen to them it's not so much bloodlust as crusade.
Conservatives constantly talk about childish framings of good guys vs bad guys as they seek to punish the bad for the sake of making the world better.
And there are constant biblical overtones throughout.
The blood is only a collateral consequence of executing those higher goals.
