Who is Nidal Malik Hasan, the military psychiatrist whom Trump has authorized to be executed by firing squad for perpetrating the Fort Hood massacre?
It also left 32 wounded and, once Trump has made the decision, the Secretary of the Army must now set the date and place where the execution will be carried out.
D onald Trump has given the green light to the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former U.S. Army major sentenced to death for carrying out one of the bloodiest attacks on a United States military base . That decision was confirmed by Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, who announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended execution by firing squad and that the U.S. president approved the measure .
Hasan was found guilty of the shooting that took place on November 5, 2009 at Fort Hood base in Texas. That day he opened fire on U.S. military personnel at an Army personnel processing center, causing the deaths of 13 people and also leaving 32 others injured .
According to the Pentagon, the then military psychiatrist , who held the rank of major, shouted "Allahu Akbar" while carrying out the attack , considered one of the most serious episodes suffered by the United States Armed Forces on national soil.
He was sentenced to death in 2013
Hasan was sentenced to death 13 years ago after being found guilty of thirteen counts of premeditated murder and 32 others of attempted premeditated murder . Since then, he has remained confined at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth , in Kansas. The massacre took place at the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Center, a facility through which service members passed as they prepared to be deployed overseas or returned from missions.
Once Trump has made the determination, it will now be the Secretary of the Army who must set the date and place where the execution will be carried out, according to U.S. authorities. The decision represents a new step in a case that remains one of the most shocking episodes in the recent history of the United States Army.
