President Trump approves firing squad for 2009 Fort Hood shooter

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The approval comes days after Tennessee failed to execute convicted killer Christa Pike with a lethal injection, igniting public debate over the death penalty.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961. The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X.

“Judgment day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into a medical buil...

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