“US Army Considers Firing Squad for Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Hasan in First Since 1945” — what this page in the network covers. The United States Army is preparing to execute Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, potentially by firing squad—a method not used by the military since 1945. Hasan, who was sentenced to death in 2013, has exhausted his appeals, and the Army is now moving toward carrying out the sentence. The last military execution by firing squad was that of Private Eddie Slovik for desertion during World War II.
The use of firing squads has resurfaced in the US as lethal injection drugs become harder to obtain, and some states have authorized the method as a backup. Military executions are rare, with only a handful since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1984. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.