SocietyRetired US generals urge halt to ‘barbaric’ firing-squad execution livestream

Seventy-two retired US generals, admirals and other senior officers are calling on authorities to cancel plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. They cite legal arguments and the dangers of such a broadcast. Death-penalty experts say no government execution has ever been broadcast or livestreamed; the US military last used a firing squad in 1945.