The Pentagon confirmed Nidal Hasan's Army firing squad execution will be livestreamed on Dec. 3, public accountability finally arriving for the 2009 Fort Hood massacre that left 13 dead.
Fox News Digital reported the confirmation after Pentagon officials announced the public will witness the sentence carried out at Fort Hood, Texas.
A War Department official stated the plan in plain terms and left the logistics for later.
"It will be livestreamed. Details will follow."
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell had already marked the moment on X.
"Judgment day for Hasan has finally come."
Hasan, a former Army major, remains on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. President Donald Trump approved an Army firing squad after War Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended that method. The sentence is set for Dec. 3 at the same post where the attack happened.
On Nov. 5, 2009, Hasan opened fire on unarmed soldiers and civilians at Fort Hood. He shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he attacked. Thirteen people died. Thirty-two others were wounded.
A military court convicted him in 2013 and sentenced him to death. He has sat on death row ever since while families waited for the sentence to mean something.
If the Dec. 3 date holds, this will be the first U.S. military execution since 1961. It will also be the first military execution by firing squad since 1945.
The method itself came from the top. Hegseth recommended an Army firing squad. Trump approved it. The Pentagon then confirmed the public will see the sentence carried out by livestream, with viewing details still to come.
Bret Baier reported the officials' announcement on the plan. Fox News Digital received the War Department's direct confirmation that the execution "will be livestreamed."
No platform, access rules, or timing window beyond Dec. 3 has been released. The official line remains that details will follow.
Hasan has lived under a death sentence for more than a decade at Fort Leavenworth. The government is now moving him back to Fort Hood for the final act. The post that suffered the attack will host the punishment.
That choice keeps the focus on the victims and the place where 13 lives ended. It also closes a gap that stretched from the 2013 verdict to a concrete date in December.
Military justice moved slowly. The sentence did not. Once Trump signed off on the firing squad, the Pentagon put a date on the calendar and told the country it could watch.
Families of the dead and the wounded have carried this case since 2009. Thirteen funerals. Thirty-two recovery stories. Years of appeals and delay while Hasan remained alive on military death row.
The livestream decision does not revise those years. It does put the final step in public view instead of behind a closed gate.
When a soldier murders his own and shouts a jihadist cry while doing it, the country is entitled to see the sentence finished. Dec. 3 is that date.
