WASHINGTON, DC – October 6, 2026 (STL.News) President Donald Trump has approved the execution of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by a U.S. Army firing squad for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others. The decision moves one of the most consequential military death-penalty cases in modern U.S. history closer to an execution that, if ultimately carried out, would be the first by the American military since 1961. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended death by U.S. Army firing squad for Hasan, and Trump approved the recommendation, according to Pentagon
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