Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says

According to Barbados Nation, The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. A Defence Department official told the BBC the execution of Nidal Hasan, who fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, would be livestreamed. It is believed it would be the first public execution in the US in almost a century. The decision to livestream it was “unprecedented in the modern era” and “on uncertain legal terrain”, said John Mills, a lawyer who works with inmates sentenced to death. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” said Hegseth. The UN human rights office told AFP that livestreaming it would be “tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture”. Democratic Senator Ch