# The US wants to livestream a firing squad execution. Is it legal?

https://mins.news/en/video/93800

- BBC News, 2026-10-09 19:45 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6L8PLb5f_w

> US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of former US Army major Nidal Hasan. Hasan shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009; the execution is believed to be the first public one in the US in almost a century.

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