Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad
Hasan – who killed 13 and wounded 32 others during a November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood – will be executed by firing squad on December 3 at 1 p.m. at the…
The military is going to put Nidal Hasan in front of a firing squad on the same Texas base where he murdered thirteen soldiers. That is not a miscarriage of justice. It is the closest thing to closure those families are going to get.
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Convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan will be put to death in the same manner and place that he carried out his bloody rampage, officials revealed Tuesday as they announced an execution date.
Hasan – who killed 12 US service members, one civilian, and wounded 32 others during a horrific November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood – will be executed by firing squad on December 3 at 1 p.m. at the very military base he once terrorized, Army Secretary Adam Telle announced in an X post Tuesday night.
The murderous ex-soldier’s method of death — by firing squad — was recommended by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and approved by President Trump on Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced.
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote in a separate X post announcing the method of death, noting Hassan was “shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the [2009] attack.”
Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist turned terrorist, attacked troops on line to be immunized at the Texas Army base before being shot in the back and left paralyzed by a responding police officer.
At trial, the mad major told a military judge that he was defending “the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban.”
He was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013.
Hasan will be the first service member to be executed by the armed forces since 1961.
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The military is going to put Nidal Hasan in front of a firing squad on the same Texas base where he murdered thirteen soldiers. That is not a miscarriage of justice. It is the closest thing to closure those families are going to get. Hasan called his attack “jihad” and never showed a second of remorse. So let the date stand: December 3, 1 p.m., Fort Hood.
What stands out is that the Army is doing what the civilian justice system grows too timid to do. For years, the left treated this as a workplace violence problem and tried to scrub the religious motive out of the record. No such luck. Hasan confessed. The evidence was overwhelming. And now the sentence is coming due. There’s something fitting about execution by firing squad, a method the military reserves for the worst of the worst, carried out at the very place he violated.
There is nothing cruel about a firing squad for a mass murderer. If you take the lives of soldiers in their own formation, you forfeit the gentler means of exit. We have no sympathy for complaints about “cruel and unusual” from people who spent years calling Hasan a troubled employee rather than what he was. He was a traitor in an Army uniform, and he will die as such.
We’ll see if the usual anti-death-penalty crowd tries to turn this into a cause. They shouldn’t. This is justice finally catching up. The families of the fallen waited sixteen years. They asked for nothing except the sentence judges and a jury already handed down. On December 3, the Army will deliver.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.