Trump says Fort Hood US shooter execution will not be livestreamed

US president reverses Pentagon’s plan to publicly stream execution of Nidal Malik Hasan after outcry.Published On 15 Oct 202615 Oct 2026United States President Donald Trump has said that the execution of a man who killed several military personnel at the Fort Hood military base in 2009 will not be livestreamed.The statement on Thursday represented a reversal for the administration, with the Pentagon saying last week the execution would be livestreamed and Trump saying he “absolutely” supported the plan. The public killing would have been the first of its kind in the US since 1936, with successive administrations criticising foreign governments for conducting such executions.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Fort Hood shooter to be executed by firing squad: All to knowlist 2 of 3Hegseth says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be ‘public’list 3 of 3‘Barbaric’: US lawmakers condemn plan to livestream Nidal Hasan’s executionend of listIn his post, Trump called the convicted gunman, Nidal Malik Hasan, a “very bad and evil man”. He also accused the administration of former President Barack Obama of an “intelligence failure” ahead of the attack in Texas, which ki...