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US President Donald Trump cast doubt on Friday over whether military authorities will livestream the upcoming firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.
While reaffirming his support for the death penalty, Trump stated that officials are still determining the broadcast plan.
“I really don’t care how he goes, as long as he goes,” Trump told reporters, stepping back from earlier comments by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who had promised a public broadcast.
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The proposal to broadcast the December 3 execution—the military’s first firing squad since 1945—has drawn fierce, bipartisan criticism alongside international condemnation.
Republican Representative Austin Scott argued that “livestreaming executions is what terrorists do,” while Democratic Senator Mark Kelly warned against adopting practices associated with totalitarians.
United Nations and human rights officials also condemned the plan, warning that broadcasting an execution breaches prohibitions against torture and cruel treatment.
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Hasan, who paralysed himself after a civilian police officer shot him during the 2009 mass shooting, received a death sentence from a military jury in 2013.
Court records show Hasan launched the attack out of opposition to US military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If carried out, the sentence will mark the first US military execution of any kind since 1961.
