Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company
Pete Hegseth execution plan
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- NPR Politics·11h agoWeek in Politics: Hegseth's livestream backlash; Greece ambassador Guilfoyle scandal
Bipartisan blowback on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plans to livestream a military execution, plus a scandal involving Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US Ambassador to Greece.
Read at NPR Politics → - National Post·21h agoIt’s ‘what jihadists do’: Plan to livestream U.S. military firing squad execution draws criticism
‘America is better than that,’ said Republican Rep. Austin Scott, while Democratic Senator Mark Kelly said that public executions are ‘the kind of thing Iran and the Taliban do’
Read at National Post → - Guardian International·1d agoI saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait
It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran Pete Hegseth’s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game. Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on…
Read at Guardian International → - Guardian World·1d agoPete 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…
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