The Pentagon has announced it will execute a former US Army major by firing squad, the first military execution in more than 60 years.
Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, injuring another 32.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on social media on Monday that US defence secretary Pete Hegseth had made the recommendation and President Donald Trump approved it.
The execution is scheduled to take place at Fort Hood in Texas on 3 December, the secretary of the US Army said on Tuesday. It will be the first military execution by firing squad since the end of World War Two.
“Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,” Parnell wrote on X.
Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist from Virginia, killed 13 soldiers at the base in Texas in 2009 and later admitted in court he was the gunman and apologised for “any mistakes”.
He said during his court-martial in 2013 that he believed he was protecting Muslims and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The killings on 5 November 2009 were the deadliest ever non-combat attack on an American military base.
The attack took place in a crowded medical building where deploying soldiers were awaiting check-ups and vaccines.
