Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution of Nidal Hasan puts US in poor company

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice US politics – live updates If the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, his country will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years. Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities…