Tillis: Livestreaming Hasan execution ‘beyond disgusting’

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Thursday slammed the recent decision by the U.S. military to livestream the upcoming execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, calling it “beyond disgusting.”

“Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting,” he wrote on social platform X. “Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America.”

Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who opened fire at the Fort Hood base in Texas in 2009, killing 13 people, is set to be put to death on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Army. He was found guilty in 2013 of 45 counts of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, dismissed from the Army and given a death penalty sentence.

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