The Pentagon's move would allow the public to witness an execution for the first time in almost a century.

Roughly 90 years ago, a man convicted of rape was hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in Kentucky.

The execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the Defense Department said.

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. That would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the execution Nidal Hasan, who carried out a mass shooting at Fort Hood, would be available for the public to see.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of people gathered in Owensboro, Ky., in August 1936 to watch as Rainey Bethea, 22, was executed by hanging. Defense ...

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When Nidal Hasan is put to death by firing squad during a public livestream, he will become the first person to be publicly executed in the United States in nearly a century. The Defense Department ...