The United States will livestream the Army’s firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan on Dec. 3, 2026, at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Pentagon official. Hasan killed 13 people during the 2009 shooting at the installation and wounded 32 others.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity, offered no additional information, and said further details would follow. Livestreaming the execution would be an unprecedented move as the military prepares to carry out Hasan’s sentence.

Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, is scheduled to become the first person executed by firing squad by the United States military since 1945. That previous execution occurred shortly after the end of World War II.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth previously told the Human Events Daily podcast that he planned to make Hasan’s execution public. Video of Hegseth’s comments was posted on social media Thursday.

The execution is scheduled for a Thursday at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood. Hegseth said choosing the approximate time, day of the week, and location of Hasan’s shooting was a “no-brainer.”

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public. Because people need to understand that ... there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth said.

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Hegseth’s remarks laid out the public purpose behind the planned broadcast while emphasizing consequences for attacks of this kind. The Pentagon official later confirmed that the United States would livestream the firing squad execution.

“He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack,” Parnell wrote. The statement summarized the death toll, the number of wounded, and Hasan’s words during the shooting.

The date and location of the execution were announced Wednesday. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle confirmed that Hasan would be returned to Fort Hood, the site where the murders occurred.

“The execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad will take place at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, December 3rd, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT.,” Telle announced.

The selected date, time, and location place the execution at Fort Hood on the same day of the week and at approximately the same time as the 2009 attack. The livestream plan would allow members of the public to watch the sentence being carried out.

If the announced date and method are carried out, the execution would be the Army’s first by firing squad since Jan. 31, 1945. On that date, Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a United States Army firing squad in France.

Slovik was executed for desertion during World War II. Hasan’s planned execution would therefore end a period of more than eight decades without a United States military firing squad carrying out a death sentence.

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The military’s most recent execution by any method occurred in 1961. Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging at the gallows in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after being convicted of raping and attempting to kill a young girl.

Hasan was born in northern Virginia and served as an Army psychiatrist. On Nov. 5, 2009, he entered a Fort Hood readiness processing center and opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun.

Thirteen people were killed in the shooting, including a pregnant soldier. Another 32 people were wounded, according to the account cited by Parnell.

During his court martial, Hasan admitted that he carried out the shooting. In 2013, he said the attack had been committed in support of the Taliban.

Hasan is now 56 and faces execution at the same Army installation where the attack occurred. The planned livestream, the firing squad method, and the matching location and timing would make the event unprecedented in the modern record described by officials.

The final details surrounding public access to the livestream were not immediately provided. The anonymous Pentagon official said more information would follow as the Dec. 3 execution approaches.