Une première depuis 65 ans : L'armée américaine s'apprête à fusiller Nidal Hasan sur validation de Trump
US President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former military psychiatrist sentenced to death for the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, massacre. The announcement was made by the Pentagon. If the sentence is carried out, it will be the first execution conducted by the US military since 1961.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell indicated on the social media platform X that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had recommended this method of execution and that the President had approved it. It is now up to the Secretary of the Army to set the date and location, which have not yet been announced.
Former Army major Nidal Hasan opened fire on November 5, 2009, at a medical center on Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30. Sentenced to death in 2013 by a military jury, he is held at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His legal options have been exhausted after his appeals were rejected by higher courts.
The decision is of historic significance. The last American military execution took place on April 13, 1961: Private John Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth. The last American soldier executed by firing squad was Eddie Slovik, shot in France in 1945 for desertion. Hasan is one of four soldiers currently on death row.
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