The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan on December 3, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move.
"It will be livestreamed. Details will follow," a Pentagon official said.
Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who says he was retaliating for US wars in the Muslim world, is set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945, shortly after the end of WW2.
He has since been held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier told the Human Events Daily podcast he planned to make Hasan's execution public, according to video of his comments posted on social media on Thursday.
Hegseth said deciding to execute Hasan by firing squad at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 pm - the approximate time, day of the week and location of Hasan's shooting - was a "no brainer."
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public. Because people need to understand that ... there’s serious consequences for these types of things," Hegseth said.
The Pentagon announced on Monday that President Donald Trump had approved Hegseth's recommendation to execute Hasan by firing squad, leaving the secretary of the Army to determine the time and place.
