Trump godkänner avrättning genom arkebusering
Donald Trump har godkänt att den tidigare armépsykiatern Nidal Hasan ska avrättas genom arkebusering, rapporterar AP.
Hasan dömdes till döden redan 2013 efter att han fyra år tidigare sköt ihjäl 13 personer och skadade 31 på militärbasen Fort Hood i Texas.
Att Trump godkänt avrättningen innebär att Hasan blir den första amerikanska militärfången att avrättas sedan 1961 och den första att avrättas genom arkebusering sedan 1960.
”Domedagen för Hasan har äntligen kommit”, skriver Pentagons talesperson Sean Parnell på X.
Nidal Hasan
Wikipedia (en)
Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is an American former United States Army major, physician, and mass murderer, convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009. Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013.
During the six years Hasan was a medical intern and resident at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, concerns were raised about his job performance and behavior, specifically comments described by colleagues as "anti-American". Hasan was described as socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare. Two days before the shooting, less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
Prior to the shooting, an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded Hasan's email correspondence with the late Imam Anwar al-Awlaki were related to his authorized professional research and he was not a threat. The FBI, Department of Defense (DoD), and United States Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. The Senate released a report describing the shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001".
Controversially, the Army decided not to charge Hasan with terrorism. A jury panel of 13 officers convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death, and in 2026, was approved for execution to be carried out by an army firing squad. Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, awaiting execution.
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