President Donald Trump approved the Fort Hood shooter’s death by firing squad as a result of his almost 17-year-old murder.
On November 5, 2009, when he fired at soldiers and one human inside the Soldier Readiness Center, a health center on the east side of the U.S. Army center, a former U.S. Army physician, Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army physician, was found guilty of 13 counts of premeditated murder.
Before being shot and taken alive, Hasan caused 13 murders and injured 32 people, despite having been paralyzed from the waist down as a result.
He was found guilty of 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder and 13 counts of premeditated murder in 2013 and was sentenced to death by a military judge. According to the National Institute of Military Justice, Hasan’s most recent appeal was denied by the Supreme Court of the United States in March 2025, which is the most pertains he may file under the military code.
According to Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell,” Secretary of War]Defense ] Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by a U.S. Army fire crew for convicted criminal Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American troops at Fort Hood in 2009,” he confirmed via an X post on Monday.
Parnell claimed that he was shouting” Allahu Akbar” during Hasan’s assault, which claimed the lives of more than a few people and injured 32 people.
The Secretary of the Army does determine the location and time of the murder. Hasan’s decision time has come, Parnell declared.
Hegseth responded with” Justice” in response to this message.
In response to an executive order from Trump, which included “extending the procedure to incorporate more manners of murder such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” the U.S. Department of Justice announced in April 2026 a new set of measures it would be adopting.
In addition to a “penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use,” the executive order, which read “restoring the death penalty and protecting public safety,” also mandated that U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche pursue the death penalty in cases where a law enforcement officer was killed.
According to its own policies, the U.S. Army, which has not executed a person since 1961, has no more than 150 days after Trump’s approval to execute Hasan but not before 60 days after that approval. One of the four military death row prisoners is Hasan.
Hasan is scheduled to be moved to the federal execution facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, from where he is currently imprisoned in the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
