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The Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad

Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026

President Donald Trump approved the execution by an Army firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. The execution is set for December 3. The US military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961.[1] Trump later said it would not be livestreamed.[2]

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Trump later said it would not be livestreamed.[2]

Coverage over time

Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)

Week of 2026-10-05 (UTC): 24%, 115 of 479 tracked outlets (30 left, 52 center, 33 right)Week of 2026-10-12 (UTC): 23%, 109 of 476 tracked outlets (31 left, 51 center, 27 right)Week of 2026-10-19 (UTC): under 1%, 2 of 479 tracked outlets (0 left, 1 center, 1 right)Week of 2026-10-26 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-02 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outletsWeek of 2026-11-09 (UTC): no coverage from tracked outlets, so far

LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far

Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 11 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.

Weekly counts, outlets and reports (3 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)LeftCenterRightOf trackedShareReceipts
Oct 19, 20260112 of 479under 1%
Oct 12, 2026315127109 of 47623%
Oct 5, 2026305233115 of 47924%

Latest coverage

The newest reporting in this story's record.

  1. Oct 15, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Newsweek

    Pete Hegseth Responds After Trump Rejects His Livestream Execution Plan

Background

Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army major and psychiatrist, opened fire inside a soldier-processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30, and was convicted in 2013.[1] In October 2026 the Pentagon said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had recommended his execution by firing squad and that President Donald Trump had approved it. The acting Army secretary said it would take place at Fort Hood on December 3.[1][3]

Trump said he would decide whether the execution would be livestreamed.[1] A survivor of the shooting plans to attend.[4] Hillary Clinton called a livestreamed public execution a "barbaric idea,"[5] and Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan condemned the planned livestream.[6] On October 14 Trump canceled the livestream that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had announced, saying the victims' immediate families could watch in person if they chose.[2]

Supporting stories (6)
  1. Trump says he’ll decide whether to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
  2. Trump, after bipartisan and Catholic backlash, says Pentagon won’t livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter
  3. Nidal Hasan's Execution Date Has Been Set
  4. Fort Hood survivor will be at Nidal Hasan’s public execution to ‘look at him in his eyes’
  5. Hillary Clinton Slams Public, Live Streamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter: 'Barbaric Idea'
  6. Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin condemns planned execution of Fort Hood shooter

The full record

Each date is when an update was first reported.

All 10 recorded updates

October 2026

  1. Pete Hegseth Responds After Trump Rejects His Livestream Execution PlanHeadline from Newsweek · 4 outlets
  2. Trump, after bipartisan and Catholic backlash, says Pentagon won’t livestream execution of Fort Hood shooterHeadline from Crux · 105 outlets
  3. Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution publicHeadline from Local News 8 · 8 outlets
  4. Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin condemns planned execution of Fort Hood shooterHeadline from WOOD TV8 · 1 outlet
  5. Hillary Clinton Slams Public, Live Streamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter: 'Barbaric Idea'Headline from Breitbart News · 2 outlets
  6. Fort Hood survivor will be at Nidal Hasan’s public execution to ‘look at him in his eyes’Headline from New York Post · 3 outlets
  7. Hegseth says Hasan execution will be publicHeadline from ABC News · 4 outlets
  8. Hegseth wants a livestream execution. Here's how firing squads workHeadline from Axios · 70 outlets
  9. Nidal Hasan's Execution Date Has Been SetHeadline from Townhall · 1 outlet
  10. Trump says he’ll decide whether to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal HasanHeadline from NBC News · 120 outlets

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