Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
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- CBC Top Stories·4h agoU.S. army moves to execute man convicted in 2009 deadly Fort Hood rampage by firing squad
The former U.S. army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first U.S. military execution in more than 65 years.
Read at CBC Top Stories → - NPR Politics·8h agoTrump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.
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