<p>The execution by firing squad of 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan is scheduled for December 3, according to acting Army Secretary Adam Telle's announcement on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The execution will take place at Fort Hood at 2 p.m. EST, as stated in Telle’s memo.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump authorized Hasan's execution following a request from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as confirmed by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Monday.</p>
<p>“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attack,” Parnell posted on X. “The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.”</p>
<p>Hasan was convicted of the attack that resulted in 14 deaths at the Texas military base, including that of an unborn baby, and was sentenced to death in 2013 after being tried and convicted on 13 counts of murder. He will be the first soldier executed after a court-martial since Pvt. John Bennett, who was hanged for the rape and attempted murder of a child in 1961.</p>
<p>Hasan, currently imprisoned at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, lost his final appeal to overturn his death sentence in early 2025.</p>
<p>The former Army major and psychiatrist stated that he committed the shootings because he viewed soldiers as “going against the Islamic Empire.”</p>