Hegseth says Americans can watch Nidal Hasan’s firing squad execution

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch Nidal Hasan’s December firing squad execution, underscoring that terrorists face real consequences for mass murder.

Pete Hegseth made clear the December 3, 2026, execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public. The secretary told Real America’s Voice that viewers will see it because the country needs to grasp the stakes.

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth said.

Hasan is set to die by firing squad at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. Central time. President Donald Trump approved both the execution and the method. It will be the first U.S. military execution carried out in more than 60 years.

The move closes a long chapter after the Nov. 5, 2009, attack that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Texas Army post. Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the shooting, according to reporting on the case.

Trump green-lights the first military execution since 1961

Just the News reported that Trump approved the execution and method on a Monday, and Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle signed the order setting the date and time at Fort Hood.

Telle’s memo fixed the event for Dec. 3, 2026. The schedule matches the hour of the original 2009 massacre. Hasan was convicted in 2013 of the murders and injuries from that day.

Accountability has defined much of the Trump record on crime and national security, a point even some critics have noticed in recent commentary on falling violent offenses.

The Washington Examiner noted the same December date and firing-squad method after Telle’s announcement, placing the event at 2 p.m. Eastern, the equivalent of 1 p.m. Central.

Pentagon confirms a public livestream

The Pentagon has confirmed the execution will be livestreamed. A War Department official said the feed is coming and that details will follow. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell put the moment in plain terms.

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

Hegseth’s public-viewing pledge lines up with that confirmation. The administration is not treating the sentence as a private bureaucratic act. It is treating it as a visible statement that mass murder of American soldiers carries a final price.

Hegseth has remained a central figure in Trump’s national-security team even as confirmation fights and later personnel chatter have swirled, including cases where a GOP senator later called his Hegseth vote a career regret.

Fort Hood’s dead still wait for the final accounting

Thirteen soldiers and civilians never came home from that November day in 2009. Dozens more carried wounds for the rest of their lives. For years the case sat in the military justice system while Hasan remained alive under sentence.

Trump’s approval of a firing squad ends the delay. The method is blunt and traditional. The date and hour deliberately echo the original attack. Hegseth’s insistence on a public audience adds one more layer: the country will see the sentence carried out.

That focus on consequences fits a broader pattern of Trump demanding results from the people around him, whether the issue is military readiness or internal discipline, as in the reported Camp David clash over missile shortages and leakers.

Hasan’s own words during the attack left little doubt about the nature of the crime. The courts convicted him. The president approved the sentence. The Army set the date. The secretary of war says the public will watch.

After more than a decade and a half, the system is finally moving from paperwork to the firing line. Families who lost sons, daughters, husbands, and wives at Fort Hood will see the government keep its word.

Personnel debates around Hegseth continue in other corners of Washington, including calls from some Republicans who once backed him and later urged Trump to make a change. The Hasan case, however, shows an administration willing to finish hard business left unfinished for years.

Justice delayed is still justice when it finally arrives. When a terrorist murders American troops on their own base, the country owes the dead a clear and public end to the case.