Fort Hood Shooter Gets His Execution Date
The U.S. Army has scheduled convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan to die by firing squad Dec. 3 at the Texas military installation where he killed 13 people in 2009.
The U.S. Army has scheduled convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan to die by firing squad Dec. 3 at the Texas military installation where he killed 13 people in 2009.
The execution would be the first carried out by the U.S. military since 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to theU.S. Army. President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s execution after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recommended that his death sentence be carried out by an Army firing squad.
Hasan was an Army major and psychiatrist when he opened fire inside Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center on Nov. 5, 2009, killing 13 people and attempting to kill another 32, according to theU.S. Army.
Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar” before opening fire with a laser-sighted handgun and later said he sought to prevent American troops from deploying to Afghanistan and killing Muslims, theAssociated Press reported. Hasan made little effort to contest that he carried out the shooting during his court-martial and described himself to jurors as a soldier who had “switched sides,” according to the outlet.
A military panel unanimously convicted Hasan of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder before sentencing him to death on Aug. 28, 2013, according to theU.S. Army