Vance questions Pentagon execution livestream

by Glenn Greenwald Reposted by Trudy Harpham, James S. Shortle

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Drew Harwell

@drewharwell.com

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

October 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM

by Michael McFaul

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

apnews.com

October 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM

by Prem Sikka Reposted by Mark Priestley

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Prem Sikka

@premnsikka.bsky.social

Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says.

Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship.

Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian.

What next?

Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".

www.bbc.co.uk

October 9, 2026 at 8:36 AM

by Glenn Greenwald Reposted by Trudy Harpham, James S. Shortle

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by Daniel W. Drezner

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Daniel Drezner

@dandrezner.bsky.social

"Live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Hegseth faces bipartisan backlash over public execution for Fort Hood shooter

Both Republican and Democratic critics said the plan was beneath the United States.

www.politico.com

October 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Michael E. Webber

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The Guardian

Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company

Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice US politics - live updates If the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist Islam who killed 13 people at a military base in Texas, his country will join a motley assembly of lesser powers and rogue actors who have conducted public executions in recent years. Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities carried out six such killings and the regime in Tehran 11, according to Amnesty International. Continue reading. . .

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by Timothy Snyder

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by Jared Yates Sexton Reposted by Steven French

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Jared Yates Sexton

@jysexton.bsky.social

Televising the execution of Nidal Hasan is about more than voyeuristic violence

Authoritarianism requires rituals of death that seek to transform secular oppression into religious orthodoxy while communicating the need to murderously purge “the other.”

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/descent-in...

Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism

The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

October 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM

by Glenn Greenwald Reposted by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, James S. Shortle

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.

“releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...”

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says

If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.

www.nytimes.com

October 9, 2026 at 1:05 AM

by Cas Mudde

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

Very Sick People

Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

October 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM

by Andrew Scott

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

2015: Global condemnation of ISIS executions on YouTube

2026: And we go live to Pete Hegseth with this week's live stream of a firing squad.

Hugo Clement Reporting for Quotidien

ALT: Hugo Clement Reporting for Quotidien

static.klipy.com

October 9, 2026 at 8:20 PM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

United States of America brings back public executions courtesy of Pete Hegseth.

The sort of tyrannical behaviour that ISIS and the Taliban engage in.

baynews9.com/fl/tampa/mil...

Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be "public"

baynews9.com

October 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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