The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will be livestreamed.

A livestream announcement is a plan for how a sentence a court-martial already imposed would be carried out. It is not a new verdict, and it is not an execution that has happened. Military.com reported Hasan had not yet been through civilian habeas review, which can take years, so a Dec. 3 date does not mean the sentence has been carried out.

CBS News reported Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, that a Pentagon official said the military plans to livestream the execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3. POLITICO, NBC News, Military Times, and the Associated Press also reported the Pentagon said the execution would be livestreamed. Hegseth told Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice, "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be," and said, "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public — because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things." CBS News reported he placed the execution at Fort Hood at 1 p.m. POLITICO reported he said that hour was "which is when he did it." NBC News reported he spoke from the USS Abraham Lincoln and that a Defense Department official confirmed the Dec. 3 livestream. Military Times reported Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced the execution for Thursday, Dec. 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. Central at Fort Hood. Earlier reporting said no date had been set. That reporting is superseded. A scheduled date is still a plan. Hasan has not been executed.

The approval that put a firing squad on the table came earlier in the week. CBS News reported that chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said President Donald Trump approved a plan, recommended by Hegseth, to execute Hasan by an Army firing squad. Parnell wrote, "The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come." The Washington Post reported the same approval. Military.com reported that, when those first accounts were published, the Pentagon declined to add anything further about the timeline, the logistics of a method unused since 1945, or the status of remaining appeals. Those accounts are why no date was on the record then. The Army's later announcement of Dec. 3 replaces them.

Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, was convicted at a 2013 court-martial of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 in a Nov. 5, 2009 shooting at a soldier processing center at Fort Hood, CBS News reported. Military.com reported the dead were 12 soldiers and one civilian, that a military jury in August 2013 convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, and that he has been held at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The Washington Post reported 13 people killed and 32 wounded. The 32 attempted-murder counts and the "more than 30" injured figure are the same event described at two levels of precision. Military.com reported he was shot by responding officers and paralyzed from the waist down. CBS News reported he acknowledged at trial that he was responsible and claimed he fired on fellow soldiers to protect Islamic insurgents from U.S. forces. Those are the findings and the defense claim from the 2013 court-martial. They are not a new hearing, and they are not an execution.

Military.com reported that the president's approval is one of the final steps in the military's capital review, not a fresh verdict, and that Hasan had not exhausted appeals and had not yet gone through habeas corpus review in civilian federal court. It reported that President George W. Bush approved the execution of Army Pvt. Ronald Gray in 2008 and that Gray remains on military death row while that habeas litigation continues. It reported Hasan is one of four inmates on the military's death row, and that no American service member has been executed by any method since 1961. CBS News reported a firing squad would be the military's first use of that method since Pvt. Eddie Slovik was executed in 1945, and that the Supreme Court last year declined to hear Hasan's 2024 petition arguing the trial judge violated his right to a public trial. A denial of review leaves the court-martial judgment in place. The Dec. 3 date and the livestream plan do not carry the sentence out.