Former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is scheduled to be executed by firing squad at Fort Hood, Texas, on Dec. 3, the Army announced Wednesday on social media. The execution will return Hasan to the installation where he killed 13 people in 2009.

Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced that the execution is scheduled for 1 p.m. Central Time. An execution order signed by Telle on Oct. 6 provides the chain of decisions that put the sentence on the calendar.

According to that order, President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s death sentence on Oct. 2. The approval followed a recommendation from War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Army’s selection of Fort Hood represents a departure from its previously disclosed plans for conducting executions. Those preparations had centered on moving military prisoners from Kansas to a federal prison in Indiana.

Under a plan called “Operation Resolute Justice,” the Army was preparing to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The plan called for military death row prisoners to be transported from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Those prisoners would have been taken to the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. An Army official confirmed the details of that plan when Task & Purpose reported on the preparations in June.

The Army had also conducted exercises connected to the operation. Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith described those drills as a standard element of the service’s preparations in case a president approved a death sentence.

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“Exercises regarding this operation have been conducted regularly for the past twenty years,” Smith told Task & Purpose at the time. Her statement showed that the Army’s preparations had continued across two decades.

The announced Fort Hood execution changes the location from the previously disclosed arrangement involving Terre Haute. The source did not provide an Army explanation for selecting Fort Hood instead of using the federal prison.

Hasan was serving as an Army psychiatrist when he carried out the 2009 killings. He killed 12 soldiers and one civilian while wounding dozens of other people.

The case resulted in Hasan’s conviction and death sentence in 2013. The scheduled execution comes more than a decade after that sentence was imposed.

Hasan later asked the Supreme Court to review his Army court-martial conviction. In 2025, the Supreme Court denied that request, according to Army officials.

He is one of four military inmates held on death row at Fort Leavenworth. The other three are Ronald Gray, Hasan Akbar and Timothy Hennis.

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The source identifies Gray, Akbar and Hennis as guilty of murder. Hasan’s scheduled transfer to Fort Hood for execution would separate his case from the previously disclosed preparations involving the four military death row inmates and Terre Haute.

Questions remain about why the Army chose Fort Hood as the site. The Pentagon referred questions about the decision to stage Hasan’s execution there to the Army.

The Army did not immediately respond to those questions. Its public announcement nevertheless establishes the date, time, method and location for carrying out Hasan’s death sentence.

The execution order ties the schedule directly to Trump’s Oct. 2 approval and Hegseth’s recommendation. Telle then signed the order on Oct. 6 before announcing the planned Dec. 3 execution.

Fort Hood is where Hasan killed 13 people and wounded dozens more in 2009. The Army now plans to carry out his firing squad execution at that same Texas installation at 1 p.m. Central Time.