Trump Approves Firing Squad Execution for Fort Hood Attacker Nidal Hasan
6th October 2026
Al Jezeera, a Voice of Islam.
United States President Donald Trump has ordered the use of a firing squad in the execution of a former army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, the Pentagon spokesman has said.
Nidal Hasan, a US citizen of Palestinian descent, would be the first US soldier to be executed by the US military in more than 60 years.
And it’s been too long in coming.
He said during his court-martial that the shooting was an effort to stop the soldiers from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims, and made almost no effort to defend himself.
And that’s all you need to know.