Nidal Malik Hasan is due to be executed by firing squad in a US military case that would mark the first use of the method by the military since the end of the Second World War.
The execution would also be the first military execution in the United States since 1961. The supplied information does not give a date for the execution or further details about the arrangements.
Hasan is identified as the Fort Hood shooter. The case therefore involves the US military’s use of an execution method that has not been used in that setting since the post-war period.
The planned execution represents a significant historical development in US military justice because of the length of time since the last military execution and the even longer gap since a firing squad was used. Further details about the timing and process were not available in the supplied material.
