When punitive messaging meets its limits in U.S. military justice
After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proposed broadcasting Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution—the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years—Trump reversed course, permitting only victims’ immediate families to witness it in person.
President Donald Trump reversed a Pentagon plan to livestream the December 3 execution of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan—the first U.S. military execution in more than six decades—confirming there wi...