Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan’s execution after Pete Hegseth’s recommendation
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Published Oct. 5, 2026
Updated Oct. 5, 2026, 9:19 p.m. ET
President Trump has approved the use of a firing squad to execute convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan, the Pentagon announced Monday.
“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
Hasan killed 12 US service members, one civilian and wounded 32 others during his November 2009 rampage at the Texas Army base.
Parnell noted the Army-officer-turned-terrorist was “shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack.”
“The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution,” the Pentagon spokesman added. “Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”
Hasan, who was sentenced to death by a military court in 2013, would be the first service member executed by the armed forces since 1961.
Make this a Social Media special for all Americans to see. The firing squad must be armed with thirteen bullets, one each for the deaths of our Heroes.
In 2021 we demanded the execution of a Fort Hood Islamic for murduring in cold blood 12 of our valant soldiers. As seen below we wanted to know why he was no scheduled for execution.
WHY HASN’T THIS EXCREMENT BEEN EXECUTED?
September 9, 2021
Fort Hood shooter congratulates Taliban from death row
Nidal Hasan, the radical Islamic terrorist who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, wrote a letter from death row, congratulating the Taliban as the terrorist group took control of Afghanistan.
In the letter – which Hasan’s attorney, retired Army Col. John Galligan, provided to Fox News – Hasan triumphantly declared, “We Have Won!!!”
Hasan, who fatally injured 13 and wounded more than 30 others, wrote the letter from death row at Fort Leavenworth Prison.
“All-Praises be to All-Mighty Allah! Congratulations on your victory over those who hate for the Laws of All-Mighty God to be supreme on the land,” Hasan wrote in a message he directed Galligan to forward to Taliban leadership.
However, Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War will get the bullets rolling and put an end to this fiasco.
Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth is seeking the death penalty for former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and injured dozens of others at Texas’s Fort Hood nearly 16 years ago.
Hegseth is asking President Trump for final approval for the military execution of Hasan, an ex-Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Army base near Killeen, Texas, in November 2009.