# UN calls US plans to livestream execution ‘cruel, abhorrent, torture’

https://mins.news/en/item/93649

- TRT World, 2026-10-09 17:52 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.trtworld.com/article/f2199487c578

> Hasan was sentenced to death for fatally shooting 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. The UN called US plans to livestream his execution “cruel, abhorrent, torture.”

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