US to livestream Army firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says

The US will livestream the army’s upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution. Nidal Hasan, a former army psychiatrist, is set to become the first person to be executed by firing squad by the US military since 1945. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at the same sprawling Texas base where Hasan opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun in a medical facility. It comes amid heightened debate in the US over the death penalty following the botched…