Vance declines to watch live execution of Nidal Hasan

US Senator JD Vance announced that he will not watch the live broadcast of the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who carried out the shooting at Fort Hood base.

Nidal Malik Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist with the rank of major, was convicted of killing 13 people in a shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, according to Al Arabiya.

The Pentagon stated that the execution will be carried out by firing squad, marking the first such case in the US military since 1961. The United Nations condemned plans to stream the execution live online, arguing that such a broadcast amounts to a public execution and constitutes a violation of the prohibition on torture.