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The United Nations (UN) has warned that livestreaming the execution of convicted killer Nidal Hasan would amount to torture and violate international human rights standards.
US defence officials said Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at a military base in 2009, would face a firing squad. They also said the execution would be broadcast live, with more details to follow.
“The livestreaming of an execution is tantamount to a public execution and would breach the absolute prohibition of torture,” the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a message sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday.
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The UN body said it had raised similar concerns about public executions in Afghanistan and Iran. It described such executions as acts that “constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
Hasan’s execution would be the first carried out by the US military since 1961. It would also be the military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International reported that at least 17 public executions were recorded worldwide in 2025. Six took place in Afghanistan, while 11 were carried out in Iran. The UN’s warning has renewed concerns over the human rights implications of broadcasting executions to the public.
