By GB News (World News) | Created at 2026-10-07 03:46:02 | Updated at 2026-10-07 04:23:56
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A terrorist who killed 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting will be executed by firing squad at the same army base where he committed his acts.
Nidal Hasan, now 56, attacked the military base in Killeen, Texas, after yelling "Allahu Akbar" on November 5, 2009.
He had been sitting on military death row since 2013 after being found guilty of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder in 2013.
On Monday, Donald Trump approved his execution, and on Tuesday, the date and location where he will be put to death was revealed.
Hasan's execution by firing squad was scheduled for December 3 at Ford Hood, Texas at 1pm CT (7pm BST), as revealed by acting Army Secretary Adam Telle.
"Judgement day for Hasan has finally come," Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said as he announced the execution.
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, made known his intention to carry out Hasan's death sentence in September last year.
"Justice," he said after the announcement.
If carried out, Hasan would become the first military execution in 60 years, and the first by firing squad since the end of the Second World War.
Hasan, an enlisted US Army physician, killed 12 US service members, one civilian, and injured 32 others in what was, at the time, the deadliest terror attack in the US since 9/11.
The killings on November 5 were also the deadliest non-combat attack on an American military base.
Hasan fired 214 rounds within the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where servicemen received vaccines and routine medical checks before deployment.
Death by firing squad is rare, but an execution using the method was carried out last year in South Carolina.
Four other states allow the method: Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah.
Questions around the efficacy and ethics of death penalty methods have been raised after the botched execution of Christa Pike by lethal injection.
Former FBI special agent Michael Tabman told GB News that the firing squad was one of the most effective methods of execution.
PICTURED: Emergency services attend the scene at Fort Hood in 2009
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"I know a lot of people thought right away of cruel and unusual punishment," he said.
"But the firing squad, I don't mean to be too detailed or graphic with this, but when carried out properly and the individual is shot through the heart where the round is supposed to go, the intent is that he becomes unconscious immediately and then dies shortly thereafter, thus not being cruel and unusual punishment."
Mr Tabman also said a firing squad is "far more humane than the [lethal] injection" because it is instantaneous.
Mr Trump has long advocated for the federal death penalty, reinstating it on the first day of his current administration after his predecessor, Joe Biden, put a moratorium on its use.
