# WATCH: Former Air Force legal chief challenges ethics of proposed public execution

https://mins.news/en/item/98623

- ABC News, 2026-10-13 15:35 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://abcnews.com/video/137142659/

> Former Air Force legal chief Rachel VanLandingham examines the ethics of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan for the Fort Hood gunman to be executed before spectators; the gunman killed 13 people.

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