USA. Secretary of Security Internal advocates execution of Hasan live

O secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Markwayne Mullin, defended on Sunday a plan for live transmission of Nidal Hasan's execution.

“I don’t see a high risk. I think people have to understand that if you attack the United States, we will go after you and ensure that the punishment is proportional to the crime,” he said.

Markwayne Mullin also rejected the idea that the fact that the execution is broadcast live could feed radicalization or turn it into a “martyr”. 

“Hasan killed 13 people in Fort Hood. I don’t have any sympathy for him and I don’t care at all about how this man dies,” she said in an interview with CBS’s Face The Nation.

It should be remembered that Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing on December 3rd, at 1300 locals in Fort Hood, Texas. 

Hasan opened fire on U.S. soldiers in a Fort Hood personnel processing center in Texas on November 5, 2009 and shouted “Allahu Akbar” (‘Alla is Great’) during the attack.

“The final decision is mine”

On Saturday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that he had not yet made a decision on whether or not the execution would be broadcast live. 

Asked about it by journalists, Donald Trump pointed out: “There are two options: do not show or show”.

And he added: “By showing, perhaps others will not do what he did. In the end, I'll make that decision. I know the military would like to do so, but the final decision is mine.”. 

The U.S. President also described Nidal Hasan as a “relenting killer,” recalling that the then Army psychiatrist killed 13 people “in cold blood” and injured 20. 

Killed 13 people on a military base

Hasan was sentenced to death for the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, in which he killed 13 people.

The attack took place on November 5, 2009, when Hasan, a military psychiatrist of Palestinian origin, opened fire on military personnel who were in a preparation center for foreign deployments at Fort Hood base in Texas.

The shooting caused 13 deaths and more than 30 wounded, and was considered one of the most deadly attacks committed in a United States military facility.

Hasan, who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by the police during the attack, was sentenced to death in 2013 by a military court.

During the trial, Hasan admitted to being the author of the shooting and justified his action with opposition to US military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.