# Hegseth says Fort Hood mass shooter’s execution will be ‘public’

https://mins.news/en/item/92367

- CNN, 2026-10-09 00:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/pete-hegseth-vows-to-make-first-firing-squad-execution-in-decades-public?Date=20261008&Profile=CNN

> In an interview, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed that the man who killed 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting would be executed “publicly.”

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