{"id":62804,"date":"2026-10-15T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-calls-off-livestream-of-fort-hood-attackers-execution-by-firing-squad\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:01:41","slug":"trump-calls-off-livestream-of-fort-hood-attackers-execution-by-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/trump-calls-off-livestream-of-fort-hood-attackers-execution-by-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker&#8217;s execution by firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>US President Donald Trump has called off plans to livestream the execution of former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan by firing squad.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump had previously said he approved of showing online the death of the Fort Hood attacker, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck20r39nl3qzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Vice-President JD Vance cast doubt<\/a> on whether it would happen and said he would not watch it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As criticism over the public display mounted, Trump said on Thursday that &#8220;many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed,&#8221; the president added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hasan fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at a military base in Texas in 2009, injuring another 32. His execution by firing squad will be the first military execution in more than 60 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump said the execution can be viewed in person by the families of the victims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They deserve to witness JUSTICE!&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crx23qlnj27qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has called off plans to livestream the execution of former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan by firing squad. Trump had previously said he approved of showing online the death of the Fort Hood attacker, while Vice-President JD Vance cast doubt on whether it would happen and said he would not watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62806,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62804\/revisions\/62806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}