14 outlets · filed 7 October 2026
Vance Says He Would Not Watch Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.
Associated Press
What the coverage shows
All of the outlets center on the Pentagon saying the Fort Hood shooter’s firing-squad execution will be public and livestreamed, with many quoting Pete Hegseth’s line that people will be able to watch. The Washington Post, BBC, CBS, NBC, and others frame it as a livestream or public viewing, while The New York Times and France 24 explicitly note the scheduled Dec. 3 date and call out its rarity in modern U.S. history. Newsweek and Axios are a little more overtly focused on Hegseth’s push for a public execution, and the Fox News extract is the only one that labels Hasan a “terrorist.”
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