# Trump approves firing-squad execution for 2009 Fort Hood shooter

https://mins.news/en/item/87379

- TASS, 2026-10-06 03:40 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/society/2197903

> President Donald Trump has approved a U.S. Army firing-squad execution for Nidal Hasan, the military psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood. The attack was described as the deadliest shooting of its kind at a U.S. military base. Hasan was sentenced to death by a military jury in 2013.

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