- Vice President JD Vance has expressed scepticism over Pentagon plans to publicly broadcast the execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan.
- President Donald Trump authorised Hasan's execution by firing squad for the 2009 mass shooting in Texas that left 13 people dead and 32 wounded.
- The US military has not executed anyone by firing squad since World War II, with the method chosen following a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
- Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops condemned the planned livestream as a barbaric promotion of a culture of death.
- Vance urged the public to focus on the gravity of Hasan's crimes rather than the controversy surrounding the proposed broadcast and execution method.
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